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2020
Despite the many changes of the twentieth and twenty first century, politicians continue to argue that the British constitution is predicated on the notion of Parliamentary Sovereignty. Indeed, a key theme of the 2016 referendum on EU membership concerned the need to reassert parliamentary control.
Richards, David, Smith, Martin
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Despite the many changes of the twentieth and twenty first century, politicians continue to argue that the British constitution is predicated on the notion of Parliamentary Sovereignty. Indeed, a key theme of the 2016 referendum on EU membership concerned the need to reassert parliamentary control.
Richards, David, Smith, Martin
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Civil service rules governing the selection and motivation of bureaucrats are among the defining institutions of modern democracies. Although this is an active area of reform in the US and elsewhere, economic analyses of the issue are virtually nonexistent. This paper provides the first welfare evaluation of civil service reform.
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2011
The chapter provides an overview of civil service reforms in Italy over the 1990s and the 2000s. It emerges that reform events led to significant changes in the Italian system of public employment. It appears that fundamental components of the relationship between elected and tenured officials have gone through a process of redefinition.
BORGONOVI, ELIO, ONGARO, EDOARDO
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The chapter provides an overview of civil service reforms in Italy over the 1990s and the 2000s. It emerges that reform events led to significant changes in the Italian system of public employment. It appears that fundamental components of the relationship between elected and tenured officials have gone through a process of redefinition.
BORGONOVI, ELIO, ONGARO, EDOARDO
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In the civil service, but not civil servants
Gouvernement et action publique, 2017Outre les diplomates de carrière sur lesquels l’essentiel de l’attention des chercheurs s’est portée, le ministère des Affaires étrangères envoie à l’étranger de nombreux autres agents qui ne sont d’ailleurs pas forcément fonctionnaires. C’est le cas des « attachés audiovisuels » étudiés dans cet article.
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2017
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the institution of the civil service, covering its initial design as conceived by the makers of the Indian Constitution and changes in that design. It makes an assessment of the effectiveness of the civil service as an institution against four criteria: preserving the constitutional democratic order ...
K.P. Krishnan, T.V. Somanathan
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This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the institution of the civil service, covering its initial design as conceived by the makers of the Indian Constitution and changes in that design. It makes an assessment of the effectiveness of the civil service as an institution against four criteria: preserving the constitutional democratic order ...
K.P. Krishnan, T.V. Somanathan
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1993
The Civil Service is at the core of the public services, as it constitutes the administrative arm of central government. The radical changes in the public services since 1979, affecting the NHS, local government, education and the police, have been imposed, steered and monitored by civil servants, as agents of government and the state.
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The Civil Service is at the core of the public services, as it constitutes the administrative arm of central government. The radical changes in the public services since 1979, affecting the NHS, local government, education and the police, have been imposed, steered and monitored by civil servants, as agents of government and the state.
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2018
Despite current concerns with good governance and policy delivery, little serious attention has been paid to the institution vital to both: the Civil Service. This chapter places present problems in historical context. Starting with the seminal 1854 Northcote–Trevelyan Report, it covers the ‘lost opportunity’ of the 1940s when the Civil Service failed ...
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Despite current concerns with good governance and policy delivery, little serious attention has been paid to the institution vital to both: the Civil Service. This chapter places present problems in historical context. Starting with the seminal 1854 Northcote–Trevelyan Report, it covers the ‘lost opportunity’ of the 1940s when the Civil Service failed ...
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1998
Abstract The civil service played a prominent role in the Scott story, yet escaped any mention in the report’s recommendations and hardly figured in the subse quent parliamentary debates. Ever present but rarely noticed, central yet ignored: such has been the habitual fate of the British civil service in consid erations by ...
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Abstract The civil service played a prominent role in the Scott story, yet escaped any mention in the report’s recommendations and hardly figured in the subse quent parliamentary debates. Ever present but rarely noticed, central yet ignored: such has been the habitual fate of the British civil service in consid erations by ...
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The Importance of Merit Principles for Civil Service Systems: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Sector
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2022Gene A Brewer +2 more
exaly