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Parliamentary Affairs 2008 61(1):232-235; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm060
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Joined-Up Government, OUP for the British Academy

Dilys M. Hill

Vernon Bogdanor(ed), Joined-Up Government, OUP for the British Academy, 2005, pp. 187 , 0-19-726333-X, Pb, £14.99.

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The distinguished set of contributors—besides the editor, these are Christopher Hood, Perri 6, Rudolph Klein, William Plowden, Christopher Foster, Edward Page, Gerry Stoker and Geoff Mulgan—bring academic, policy adviser and insider expertise to this important review on current thinking and practice on service delivery. This issue is growing in prominence as citizens become consumers demanding greater effectiveness but are reluctant to pay higher taxes. The so-called ‘wicked issues’—those cross-cutting problems which appear resistant to traditional solutions—demand fresh thinking for pragmatic as much as ideological reasons.

In his introduction, Vernon Bogdanor sets the slogan of joined-up government against the New Public Management concerns of the 1980s and 1990s. Now, the focus is on inter-agency, public-private and cross-boundary approaches to service delivery and public sector reform. But though the language may be different, the issues themselves, as Hood and others show, go back at least to the early nineteenth century (to say . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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