Decentralizing The Civil Service

Download or read book Decentralizing The Civil Service written by Rhodes, R.A. W. and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors also explore two controversial propositions. First they ask whether Britain is moving from the unitory, strong executive of the "Westminster model" to a "differentiated polity" characterized by institutional fragmentation. Second, they consider whether an unintended consequence of recent changes is a 'hollowing out of the state'. Is the British executive losing functions downwards to devolved governments and special-purpose bodies and outwards to regional offices and agencies with a resulting loss of central capacity? Substantial empirical data (both quantitative and qualitative) has been amassed here in order to give answers to these questions.