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MODERNISING IRISH GOVERNMENT
THE POLITICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM |
| By: |
Neil Collins, Patrick Butler, Terry Cradden |
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Paperback |
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0717141551 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780717141555 |
| Publisher: |
GILL |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2007 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Presents the major historical turning points in the development of Irish public services, with a particular focus on the civil service; and covers the mid-nineteenth-century reforms, the foundations of the State, and the Lemass-Whittaker economic initiative. |
| Synopsis: |
Introduces the Strategic Management Initiative, its origins and its impact; discussed in terms of efficiency, responsibility and democracyExamines the scale, scope and structure of the delivery of services to the public and their relationship to the civil service, government departments, commercial semi-state companies and other public bodiesIdentifies a number of significant failures in service delivery, examines these in detail, and offers an analysis of the reasons for themReviews the institutional framework for regulating monopolies in such sectors as telecommunications, aviation and retail competitionPresents a critique of the new kinds of relationships between government & the people by reviewing Social Partnership, the Citizen Charters of government departments and other similar instrumentsExamines current, key Human Resource issues within the Civil Service, including the contentious issue of decentralisationWritten in an accessible style by experienced academics from three disciplines, political science, management and human resource management |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
Gill Education |
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Non-returnable |
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