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A GOVERNMENT THAT WORKED BETTER AND COST LESS? EVALUATING THREE DECADES OF REFORM AND CHANGE IN UK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

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DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12232
Date01 March 2016
AuthorMichael Moran
Published date01 March 2016
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A GOVERNMENT THAT WORKED BETTER AND COST LESS? EVALUATING
THREE DECADES OF REFORM AND CHANGE IN UK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon
Oxford University Press, 2015, 229 pp., £30.00 (hb), ISBN: 978-0-19-968702-2
This is a brilliant, highly original book. Like many works of brilliant originality it pro-
duces two rather different responses from the reader: awe at the originality and insight
of the analysis; and frustration at the point where one is left by the end. The two differ-
ent responses are connected, the inevitable result of brilliant originality: Hood and Dixon
have traversed, for the rst time, vitally important territory; but once we see what they
have achieved we also see, in the light of their struggles, how it might be done better.
Public Administration Vol.94, No. 1, 2016 (276–284)
© 2015 John Wiley& Sons Ltd.

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