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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND MODERNISATION IN BRITAIN ‐ Edited by Andrew Massey and Robert Pyper

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AuthorJanet Newman
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00612_5.x
Published date01 August 2006
Date01 August 2006
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© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006 Public Administration Vol. 84, No. 3, 2006 (783–810)
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND MODERNISATION IN BRITAIN
Andrew Massey and Robert Pyper
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 198 pp., £17.99 (pb) ISBN: 0333873905
What do today ’ s students of public management – positioned in the com-
plex interface between the new public management and successive waves
of modernization – need to know of the traditional canons of public admin-
istration? How far can the present be better understood by a knowledge of
some of the philosophical or ideological debates of the past? These are some
of the questions underlying the attempt by two of the leading analysts
of British public administration to produce an introductory text. The book
includes an outline of the main theoretical debates on public administration
and management; the orientation of the main political parties; substan-
tive changes in the structure and organization of the British state; and the

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