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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Scene
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Agencies in Four Countries: A Comparison
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Comparing Tasks
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Conclusions
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
JANICE CAULFIELD is Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Previously Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glamorgan, her current research interests include performance and accountability in both developing and developed countries. She is Co-editor with Helge O. Larsen of Local Government at the Crossroads (2002).
AMANDA SMULLEN is a Researcher at the Centre for Public Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the rhetoric of agency reform, a comparative analysis of Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Her research interests include public management, discourse analysis and the new institutionalism.
COLIN TALBOT is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Nottingham and Director of the Nottingham Policy Centre. He has written widely on public management reform policies and has acted in advisory roles to UK government departments, the National Audit Office and the World Bank. He is also an Adviser to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Public Administration and a member of the Editorial Boards of Public Administration Review, Public Money and Management and the International Journal of Public Management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agencies
Book Subtitle: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-Autonomous Organizations
Authors: Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot, Janice Caulfield, Amanda Smullen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504868
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3322-5Published: 15 October 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51656-8Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50486-8Published: 15 October 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 304
Topics: Public Policy, Political Science, Political Communication