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All the reports by House of Commons (HC) select committees listed below were published by the Stationery Office or its predecessor organisation, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, during the period of the parliamentary session indicated (for example, ‘HC 2006–07’).
Governmental success and failure
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Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky,Implementation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973) David Brian Robertson, “Planned Incapacity to Succeed? Policy-Making Structure and Policy Failure”, Policy Studies Review 8:2 (1988) 241–63 Richard Rose, ed., Challenge to Governance: Studies in Overloaded Polities (London: Sage Publications, 1980) Richard Rose, Learning from Comparative Public Policy: A Practical Guide (London: Routledge, 2004) Jill Schofield, “A Model of Learned Implementation”, Public Administration 82:2 (2004) 283–308 James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998) Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam(London: Michael Joseph, 1984) Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails (London: Atlantic, 2011) Aaron Wildavsky, Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1979) James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (New York: Basic Books, 1989)
British government and politics
Kenneth Baker, The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics (London: Faber and Faber, 1993) Stuart Ball and Anthony Seldon, eds, The Heath Government, 1970–74: A Reappraisal (London: Longman, 1996) Michael Barber, Instruction to Deliver: Tony Blair, Public Services and the Challenge of Achieving Targets (London: Politico’s, 2007) Samuel H. Beer, Britain Against Itself: The Political Contradictions of Collectivism (London: Faber, 1982) Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life (London: Hutchinson, 2010) David Blunkett,The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit (London: Bloomsbury, 2006) Vernon Bogdanor, ed., Joined-Up Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005) bibliography
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Sarah Hogg and Jonathan Hill, Too Close to Call: Power and Politics – John Major in No. 10 (London: Little, Brown, 1995) John Hudson and Stuart Lowe, Understanding the Policy Process: Analysing Welfare Policy and Practice (Bristol: Policy Press, 2004) Douglas Hurd, Memoirs (London: Little, Brown, 2003) Kate Jenkins, Politicians and Public Services: Implementing Change in a Clash of Cultures (Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 2008) Simon Jenkins, Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (London: Allen Lane, 2006) Philip Johnston, Bad Laws (London: Constable, 2010) William Keegan, The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown (London: John Wiley, 2003) Norman Lamont, In Office (London: Little, Brown, 1999) Trine P. Larsen, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Johannes Kananen, “New Labour’s Policy Style: A Mix of Policy Approaches”, Journal of Social Policy 35:4 (2006) 629–49 David Lipsey, In the Corridors of Power: An Autobiography (London: Biteback, 2012) Ken Livingstone, You Can’t Say That: Memoirs (London: Faber, 2012) John Major, The Autobiography (London: HarperCollins, 1999) Andrew Marr, Ruling Britannia: The Failure and Future of British Democracy (London: Michael Joseph, 1995) Michael Moran, “Not Steering but Drowning: Policy Catastrophes and the Regulatory State”, Political Quarterly 72:4 (2001) 414–27 Michael Moran, The British Regulatory State: High Modernism and Hyper- Innovation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Chris Mullin, A View from the Foothills: Diaries 1999–2005 (London: Profile, 2009) Chris Mullin, A Walk-on Part: Diaries 1994–1999 (London: Profile, 2011) Chris Mullin, Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005–2010 (London: Profile, 2010) National Audit Office, Modern Policy-Making: Ensuring Policies Deliver Value for Money, HC 289 (London: Stationery Office, 2001) Peter Oborne, The Triumph of the Political Class (London: Simon & Schuster, 2007) Edward C. Page, Governing by Numbers: Delegated Legislation and Everyday Policy-Making (Oxford: Hart, 2001) Edward C. Page and Bill Jenkins, Policy Bureaucracy: Government with a Cast of Thousands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) bibliography
Chris Patten,Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs (London: Penguin, 2006) Stephen Pollard, David Blunkett (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) Christopher Pollitt, “Occasional Excursions: A Brief History of Policy Evaluation in the UK”, Parliamentary Affairs 46:3 (1993) 353–62 Andrew Rawnsley, Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2000) Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party (London: Viking, 2010) R. A. W. Rhodes, Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997) R. A. W. Rhodes, ed., Transforming British Government: Changing Institutions, Vol. I (London: Macmillan, 2000) R. A. W. Rhodes, ed., Transforming British Government: Changing Roles and Relationships, Vol. II (London: Macmillan, 2000) Steve Richards, Whatever It Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour (London: Fourth Estate, 2010) Nicholas Ridley, ‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years (London; Hutchinson, 1991) W. G. Runciman, ed., Hutton and Butler: Lifting the Lid on the Workings of Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Academy, 2004) Anthony Seldon with Lewis Baston, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997) Anthony Seldon, ed., The Blair Effect (London: Little, Brown 2001) Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh, ed., The Blair Effect 2001–5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Anthony Seldon, ed., Blair’s Britain, 1997–2007 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (London: Biteback, 2010) Philip Stevens, “The Treasury under Labour”, in Anthony Seldon, ed., The Blair Effect (London: Little, Brown, 2001) Norman Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile: An Autobiography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) Margaret Thatcher,The Downing Street Years (London: HarperCollins, 1993) Tony Wright, Doing Politics (London: Biteback, 2012) bibliography
Chapter 1: Blunders, judgement calls and institutions
Antony Jay, The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Chapter 2: An array of successes
Mary Banham and Bevis Hillier, eds, A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1976) Peter Hall et al., The Containment of Urban England, Vol. I, Urban and Metropolitan Growth Processes: Megalopolis Denied (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973) Peter Hall et al., The Containment of Urban England, Vol. II, The Planning System: Objectives, Operations, Impacts (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973) Deirdre Hine, The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: An Independent Review of the UK Response to the 2009 Influenza Pandemic, Cabinet Office, 2010 William Keegan, “Saving the World”? Gordon Brown Reconsidered (London: Searching Finance, 2012) David Marsh, “Industrial Relations”, in David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992) Alan N. Miller, “British Privatization: Evaluating the Results”, Columbia Journal of World Business 30:4 (1995) 82–98 Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour in Power 1945–1951 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984) David Parker, The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. I, The Formative Years 1970–1987 (London: Routledge, 2009) M. J. Parker, Thatcherism and the Fall of Coal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) Jonathan Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (London: Bodley Head, 2008) Jill Rutter, Edward Marshall and Sam Sims, The “S” Factors: Lessons from IFG’s Policy Success Reunions (London: Institute for Government, 2012) Howard A. Scarrow, “The Impact of British Domestic Air Pollution Legislation”, British Journal of Political Science 2: 3 (1972) 261–82 Anthony Seldon, Churchill’s Indian Summer: The Conservative Government, 1951–55 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981) bibliography
Bernard Sendall, Independent Television in Britain, Vol. 1, Origin and Foundation, 1946–62 (London: Macmillan, 1982) Robert Taylor, The Trade Union Question in British Politics: Government and Unions since 1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993) Richard Vinen, Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era (London: Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Chapter 3: Blunders past and present
Rob Baggott, “The BSE Crisis: Public Health and the ‘Risk Society”’, in Pat Gray and Paul ’t Hart, eds, Public Policy Disasters in Western Europe (London: Routledge, 1998) Keith Bradley and Alan Gelb, “Worker Cooperatives as Industrial Policy: The Case of the ‘Scottish Daily News’”, The Review of Economic Studies 47:4 (1980) 665–78 Ken Coates, ed., The New Worker Co-operatives(Nottingham: Spokesman Books for the Institute for Workers’ Control, 1976) Andrew Cox, Adversary Politics and Land: The Conflict over Land and Property Policy in Post-War Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984) Elliot J. Feldman, Concorde and Dissent: Explaining High Technology Project Failures in Britain and France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) Roman Gerodimos, “TheU K BSE Crisis as a Failure of Government”, Public Administration 82:4 (2004) 911–29 Dirk Haubrich, “UK Rail Privatisation Five Years Down the Line: An Evaluation of Nine Policy Objectives”, Policy & Politics 29:3 (2001) 317–36 C. N. Hill, A Vertical Empire: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme, 1950–1971 (London: Imperial College Press, 2001) Jan S. Hogendorn and K. M. Scott, “Very Large-scale Agricultural Projects: the Lessons of the East African Groundnut Scheme”, in R. I. Rotberg, ed., Imperialism, Colonialism and Hunger: East and Central Africa(Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983) Christopher Hood, “Assessing the Dangerous Dogs Act: When Does a Regulatory Law Fail?”, Public Law (Summer 2000) 282–305 Industry and Trade Committee,Concorde (HC1980–81, 265) Peter Jenkins, The Battle of Downing Street (London: Charles Knight, 1970) Keith Kyle, Suez (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991) bibliography
Martin Lodge, “The Wrong Type of Regulation? Regulatory Failure and the Railways in Britain and Germany”, Journal of Public Policy 22:3 (2002), 271–97 Michael Moran, The Politics of Industrial Relations: The Origins, Life, and Death of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act (London: Macmillan, 1977) Richard Packer, The Politics of BSE (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave, 2006) John Preston, “The Economics of British Rail Privatization: An Assessment”, Transport Reviews 16:1 (1996) 1–21 Public Accounts Committee,Development and Production of the Concorde Aircraft (HC 1972–73, 335, 353) William Richardson, “Public Policy Failure and Fiasco in Education: Perspectives on the British Examinations Crises of 2000–2002 and Other Episodes since 1975”, Oxford Review of Education 33:2 (2007) 143–60 Matteo Rizzo, “What Was Left of the Groundnut Scheme? Development Disaster and Labour Market in Southern Tanganyika 1946–1952”, Journal of Agrarian Change 6:2 (2006) 205–38 Katy Wilkinson, Philip Lowe and Andrew Donaldson, “Beyond Policy Networks: Policy Framing and the Politics of Expertise in the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis”, Public Administration 88:2 (2010) 331–45 Andrew Wilson, The Concorde Fiasco (Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1973) Alan Wood, The Groundnut Affair (London: Bodley Head, 1950)
Chapter 4: A tax on heads
Audit Commission, Administration of the Community Charge (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1990) Stephen J. Bailey, “More Tinkering with Local Government Finance”, Local Government Studies 29:1 (2003) 17–32 Richard Bellamy, “The Anti-Poll Tax Non-Payment Campaign and Liberal Concepts of Political Obligation”, Government and Opposition 29:1 (1994) 22–41 Tony Benn, The End of an Era: Diaries 1980–90 (London: Hutchinson, 1992) Peter Blair, “The Cost of the Community Charge”,Local Government Studies 14:6 (1988) 4–13 Glen Bramley, Julian Le Grand and William Low, “How Far is the Poll Tax a ‘Community Charge’? The Implications of ServiceU sage Evidence”, Policy and Politics 17:3 (1989) 187–205 bibliography
David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) Terrence C. Casey, “Britain’s Poll Tax Policy: An Institutionalist Approach”, West European Politics 19:2 (1996) 279–302 Conservative Party, Community Charge: The Fair Way to Pay for Local Government (London: Conservative Central Office, 1990) Philip Cowley, “Parliament and the Poll Tax: A Case Study in Parliamentary Pressure”, Journal of Legislative Studies 1:1 (1995) 94–114 Michael Crick and Adrian Van Klaveren, “Mrs Thatcher’s Greatest Blunder”, Contemporary Record 5:3 (1991) 397–416 Department of the Environment, Scottish Office and Welsh Office, Alternatives To Domestic Rates, Cmnd 8449 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1981) Department of the Environment, Paying for Local Government, Cmnd 9714 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1986) Michael Forsyth, The Case for a Poll Tax: An Alternative to Domestic Rates (London: Conservative Political Centre, 1985) John Gibson, “The Presentation of the Poll Tax”, Political Quarterly 60:3 (1989) 332–48 John Gibson, Public Interest Versus Self-Interest in Voting Behaviour: The Case of the British Poll Tax (Birmingham: Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, 1993) John Gibson and Tony Travers, Measuring the Effects of a Poll Tax (Birmingham: Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, 1985) Paul Hoggett and Danny Burns, “The Revenge of the Poor: The Anti-Poll Tax Campaign in Britain”, Critical Social Policy 11:33 (1991) 95–110 Gordon Hughes, “The Switch from Domestic Rates to the Community Charge in Scotland”, Fiscal Studies 10:3 (1989) 1–12 Peter John, The Introduction of the Community Charge in Scotland (London: Policy Studies Institute for Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, 1989) Peter John, “Ideas and Interests; Agendas and Implementation: An Evolutionary Explanation of Policy Change in British Local Government Finance”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 1:1 (1999) 39–62 Labour Party, Poll Tax: The Impact on the British Economy (London: Labour Party, 1990) Labour Party, Fair Rates: Labour’s Alternative to the Poll Tax / Statement by the National Executive Committee, Conference 90 (London: Labour Party, 1990) bibliography
Labour Research Department, The Poll Tax: What it Will Mean for People in England and Wales (London: LRD Publications, 1990) Susanne MacGregor, “Poverty, Poll Tax and Thatcherite Welfare Policy: Part One”, Political Quarterly 62:4 (1991) 443–50 Susanne MacGregor, “Poverty, Poll Tax and Thatcherite Welfare Policy: Part Two”, Political Quarterly 63:1 (1992) 57–67 Clive Martlew and Stephen J. Bailey, “A Poll Tax for Britain”, in Stephen J. Bailey and Ronan Paddison, eds, The Reform of Local Government Finance in Britain (London; Routledge, 1988) Douglas Mason, Revising the Rating System (London: Adam Smith Institute, 1985) Allan McConnell, “The Birth of the Poll Tax”,Critical Social Policy 28:3 (1990) 67–78 Allan McConnell, “Parliamentarism, Policy Networks and the Poll Tax”, Strathclyde Papers on Government and Politics (Glasgow: University of Strathclyde, 1993) Allan McConnell, “The Recurring Crisis of Local Taxation in Post-War Britain”, Contemporary British History 11:3 (1997) 39–62 Conor McGrath, “Policy Making in Political Memoirs – The Case of the Poll Ta x ”, Journal of Political Affairs 2:2 (2002) 71–84 John Meadowcroft, “The Failure of the Poll Tax and Classical Liberal Political Economy: Lessons for the Future”, Economic Affairs 26:1 (2006) 25–30 Arthur Midwinter, The Community Charge in Practice: Finance and Budgeting Under the New Scottish System(London: Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, 1990) R. A. W. Rhodes, “Local Government Finance”, in David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992) Michael Ridge and Stephen Smith, “Local Government Finance: The 1990 Reforms”, IFS Commentary (London: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1990) Peter Smith, “Lessons from the British Poll Tax Disaster”, National Tax Journal 44:4 (1991) 421–36 Tony Travers, “Community Charge and Other Changes”, in John Stewart and Gerry Stoker, eds, The Future of Local Government (Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1990) Thomas Wilson, “The Poll Tax – Origin, Errors and Remedies”,Economic Journal 101:4 (1991) 577–84 bibliography
Chapter 5: Pensions mis-sold
Hiroshi Araki, “Ideas and Welfare: The Conservative Transformation of the British Pension Regime”, Journal of Social Policy 29:4 (2000) 599–621 Daniel Béland and Toshimitsu Shinkawa, “Public and Private Policy Change: Pension Reform in Four Countries”, Policy Studies 35:3 (2007) 349–71 Julia Black and Richard Nobles, “Personal Pensions Misselling: The Causes and Lessons of Regulatory Failure”, Modern Law Review 61:6 (1998) 789–820 David Blake, Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Giuliano Bonoli, The Politics of Pension Reform: Institutions and Policy Change in Western Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) Giuliano Bonoli, “Political Institutions, Veto Points, and the Process of Welfare State Adaptation”, in Paul Pierson, ed., The New Politics of the Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) Alex Brummer, The Great Pensions Robbery: How the Politicians Betrayed Retirement (London: Random House Business Books, 2010) Jochen Clasen, Reforming European Welfare States: Germany and the United Kingdom Compared (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) John Creedy and Richard Disney, “The New Pension Scheme in Britain”,Fiscal Studies 9:2 (1988) 57–71 Nicholas Deakin, The Politics of Welfare (London: Taylor & Francis, 1987) Department for Health and Social Security, Personal Pensions: A Consultative Document (London: Department for Health and Social Security, 1984) Department for Health and Social Security, Reform of Social Security: Programme for Action, Cmnd 9691 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1985) Andrew Dilnot and Richard Disney, “Pensions Schemes after the 1989 Budget”, Fiscal Studies 10:3 (1989) 34–49 Richard Disney and Edward Whitehouse, The Personal Pensions Stampede (Oxford: Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1992) Howard Glennerster, British Social Policy: 1945 to the Present, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) Neville Harris, “Widening Agendas: The Social Security Reviews and Reforms of 1985–8”, in Neville Harris, ed., Social Security Law in Context (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) bibliography
Patrik Marier, Pension Politics: Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies (London: Routledge, 2008) Andrew Marr, “Who is to blame for these useless pensions?”, The Independent, 23 June 1994 Steven Nesbitt, British Pensions Policy Making in the 1980s: The Rise and Fall of a Policy Community (Aldershot, Hants: Avebury, 1995) Richard Nobles, “Retirement Provision and the Social Security Act – The Prospects for Radical Change”, Industrial Law Journal 15:1 (1986) 209–13 Paul D. Pierson and R. Kent Weaver, “Imposing Losses in Pension Policy”, in R. Kent Weaver and Bert A. Rockman, eds, Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1993) Paul Pierson, Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Social Security Bill 1986: Report by the government actuary on the financial effects of the bill on the National Insurance Fund, Cmnd 9711 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1986) Social Services Committee,Reform of Social Security (HC 1985–86, 180) Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (London: HarperCollins, 2001) Nigel Vinson and Philip Chappell, Personal and Portable Pensions For All (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 1983)
Chapter 6: Support for children – or taxpayers?
Adele Atkinson and Stephen McKay, Investigating the Compliance of Child Support Agency Clients, DWP Research Report No. 285 (London: Department of Work and Pensions, 2005) Adele Atkinson and Stephen McKay, Child Support Reform: The Views and Experiences of CSA Staff and New Clients (Leeds: Corporate Document Services, 2005) Helen Barnes, Patricia Day and Natalie Cronin, Trial and Error: A Review of UK Child Support Policy (London: Family Policy Studies Centre, 1998) Alice Bell, Anne Kazimirski and Ivana La Valle, An Investigation of CSA Maintenance Direct Payments: Qualitative Study, DWP Research Report No. 327 (Leeds: Corporate Document Services, 2006) bibliography
Fran Bennett,Child Support: Issues for the Future (London: Child Poverty Action Group, 1997) Jonathan Bradshaw, Christine Skinner, Carol Stimson and Julie Williams, Absent Fathers? (London: Routledge, 1999) Jonathan Bradshaw and Christine Skinner, “Child Support: The British Fiasco”, Focus 21:1 (2000) 80–6 Child Support Agency, The First Two Years, Annual Report for 1993–94 and Business Plan for 1995–96 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1994) Child Support Agency, Child Support Agency Report on Handover to the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (London: Child Support Agency, 2008) Karen Clarke, Gary Craig and Caroline Glendinning, Small Change: The Impact of the Child Support Act on Lone Mothers and Children (London: Family Policy Studies Centre, 1996) Anne Corden, Making Child Maintenance Regimes Work (London: Family Policy Studies Centre, 1999) Anne Corden and Daniel R. Meyer, “Child support regimes in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries: similar issues, different approaches”, Focus 21:1 (2000) 72–9 Gwynn Davis, Nick Wikeley and Richard Young, Child Support in Action (Oxford: Hart, 1998) Department of Social Security, Child Support Agency National Client Satisfaction Survey 1993 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1994) Department of Social Security, Child Support Agency National Client Satisfaction Survey 1995 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1996) Department for Work and Pensions, A Fresh Start: Child Support Redesign – The Government’s Response to Sir David Henshaw, Cm 6895 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) Department for Work and Pensions, Operational Improvement Plan: Child Support Agency (London: Stationery Office, 2006) Department for Work and Pensions, A New System of Child Maintenance, Cm 6979 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) David P. Dolowitz, “The British Child Support Agency: Did American Origins Bring Failure?”, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 19:3 (2001) 373–89 bibliography
David P. Dolowitz, “A Policy-Maker’s Guide to Policy Transfer”, Political Quarterly 74:1 (2003) 101–08 Alison Garnham and Emma Knights, Putting the Treasury First: The Truth about Child Support (London: Child Poverty Action Group, 1994) Carol Harlow, “Accountability, New Public Management, and the Problems of the Child Support Agency”, Journal of Law and Society 26:2 (1999) 150–74 Ernie W. Hazlewood, Annual Report of the Chief Child Support Officer 1994–95 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1995) David Henshaw, Recovering Child Support: Routes to Responsibility (London: Stationery Office, 2006) House of Commons Library (Education and Social Service Section), Child Support, Research Paper 94/20, 31 January 1994 Sandra Hutton, Jane Carlisle and Anne Corden, Customer Views on Service Delivery in the Child Support Agency: A Report of Research Carried Out by the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York on Behalf of the Department of Social Security (London: Stationery Office, 1998) Mavis MacLean, “The Making of the Child Support Act of 1991: Policy Making at the Intersection of Law and Social Policy’, Journal of Law and Society 21:4 (1994) 505–19 National Audit Office,Child Support Agency – Implementation of the Child Support Reforms, HC 1174 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, Investigations of Complaints Against the Child Support Agency (HC 1994–95, 135) Public Accounts Committee, Child Support Agency: Client Funds and Accounts 1996–97 (HC 1997–98, 313) Public Accounts Committee, Child Support Agency: Implementation of the Child Support Reform (HC 2006–07, 812) Tess Ridge, “Supporting Children? The Impact of Child Support Policies on Children’s Well-Being in the UK and Australia”, Journal of Social Policy 34:1 (2005) 121–42 Christine Skinner and Daniel Meyer, “After All the Policy Reform, Is Child Support Actually Helping Low-Income Mothers?”, In Benefits 14:3 (2006) 209–22 Social Security Committee,The Operation of the Child Support Act: Proposals for Change (HC 1993–94, 470) bibliography
Social Security Committee, The Performance and Operation of the Child Support Agency (HC 1995–96, 50) Social Security Committee,Child Support (HC 1996–97, 282) Mark Speed, Christine Roberts and Kai Rudat, Child Support Unit: Client Satisfaction Survey Summary (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1993) Daphne White, Attitudes Toward Child Support and the Child Support Agency: A Study Carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions (London: Social Research Branch, Dept. for Work and Pensions, 2002) Nick Wikeley, “Child Support – Back to the Drawing Board?”, Family Law 36:4 (2006) 312–16 Nick Wikeley, “Child Support – Looking to the Future’”, Family Law 36:5 (2006) 360–65 Work and Pensions Select Committee, The Performance of the Child Support Agency (HC 2004–05, 44)
Chapter 7: Britain exits the ERM
Werner Bonefeld, Alice Brown and Peter Burnham, A Major Crisis? The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain in the 1990s (Aldershot, Hants: Dartmouth, 1995) Werner Bonefeld and Peter Burnham, “Britain and the Politics of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 1990–1992”, Capital and Class 20:3 (1996) 5–39 Alan Budd, Black Wednesday: A Re-Examination of Britain’s Experience in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2005) David Cobham, “Inevitable Disappointment? The ERM as the Framework for UK Monetary Policy”, International Review of Applied Economics 11:2 (1997) 213–28 David Cobham, “The Post-ERM Framework for Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom: Bounded Credibility”, Economic Journal 107:443 (1997) 1128–41 Jim Buller, “Contesting Europeanisation: Agents, Institutions and Narratives in British Monetary Policy”, West European Politics 29:3 (2006) 389–409 Steven Kettell, The Political Economy of Exchange-Rate Policy-Making: From the Gold Standard to the Euro (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) Norman Lamont, “Out of the Ashes”, in Howard Davies, ed., The Chancellors’ Tales: Managing the British Economy (Cambridge: Polity, 2006) Helen Thompson, “Joining the ERM: Analysing a Core Executive Policy Disaster”, bibliography
in R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy, eds, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive (Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1995) Helen Thompson, The British Conservative Government and the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, 1979–1994 (London: Routledge, 1996) Martin J. Smith, “Mad Cows and Mad Money: Problems of Risk in the Making and Understanding of Policy”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6:3 (2004) 312–32 Philip Stephens, Politics and the Pound: The Tories, the Economy and Europe (London: Papermac, 1997) James Walsh, “Politics and Exchange Rates: Britain, France, Italy, and the Negotiation of the European Monetary System”, Journal of Public Policy 14:3 (1994) 345–69
Chapter 8: “Cool Britannia”
Philippa Carling and Antony Seely, The Millennium Dome, House of Commons Research Paper 98:32 (London: House of Commons, 1998) Culture, Media and Sport Committee, The Millennium Dome (HC 1997–98, 349) Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Marking the Millennium (HC 1999–2000, 578) Clive Gray, “The Millennium Dome: ‘Falling from Grace’”, Parliamentary Affairs 56:3 (2003) 441–55 Jim McGuigan, “The Social Construction of a Cultural Disaster: New Labour’s Millennium Experience”, Cultural Studies 17:5 (2003) 669–90 Alastair Irvine, The Battle for the Millennium Dome (London: Irvine News Agency, 1999) D. R. Myddleton, They Meant Well (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007) National Audit Office, The Millennium Dome, HC 936 (London: Stationery Office, 2000) Public Accounts Committee,The Millennium Dome (HC 1999–2000, 516)
Chapter 9: The great training robbery
Michael Barber, The Learning Game (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996) Department for Education and Employment, The Learning Age: A New Renaissance for a New Britain, Cm 3790 (London: Stationery Office, 1998) bibliography
Department for Education and Employment, Evaluation of Early Individual Learning Account Development Activity, Research Report RR23 (London: DfEE, 1999) Department for Education and Skills, Evaluation of Individual Learning Accounts: Early Views of Customers and Providers: England, DfES Research Report 294 (London: DfES, 2001) Department for Education and Skills, Individual Learning Accounts – Follow-up Study, DfES Research Brief RBX 01–02 (London: DfES, 2002) Department for Trade and Industry, Competitiveness – Helping Business to Win, Cm 2563 (London: Stationery Office, 1994) Education and Skills Select Committee, Individual Learning Accounts (HC 2001–02, 561) National Audit Office,Individual Learning Accounts, HC 1235 (London: Stationery Office, 2002) Public Accounts Committee,Individual Learning Accounts (HC 2002–03, 544) Alan Smithers, “Education”, in Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh, eds, The Blair Effect, 2001–2005 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Harry Todd, The ILA Story: Individual Learning Accounts in England – History and Developments, Department for Education and Skills, July 2004
Chapter 10: Tax credits and debits
Katie Lane and John Wheatley, Money with your name on it? CAB clients’ experience of tax credits, Citizens Advice with Citizens Advice Scotland, June 2005 Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Tax Credits: Putting Things Right (HC 2005–06, 124) Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Tax Credits: Getting it Wrong? (HC 2006–07, 1010) Public Accounts Committee,Inland Revenue: Tax Credits (HC 2001–02, 866) Public Accounts Committee, Inland Revenue: Tax Credits and Tax Debt Management (HC 2002–03, 332) Public Accounts Committee,Inland Revenue: Tax Credits (HC 2003–04, 89) Public Accounts Committee,Inland Revenue: Tax Credits and Deleted Tax Cases (HC 2005–06, 412) bibliography
Public Accounts Committee,Inland Revenue Standard Report: New Tax Credits (HC 2005–06, 782) Public Accounts Committee,Tax Credits (HC 2006–07, 487) Public Accounts Committee,Tax Credits and PAYE (HC 2007–08, 300) Public Administration Committee,Tax Credits: Putting Things Right (HC 2005– 06, 577) Public Administration Committee,Tax Credits: Putting Things Right: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report (HC 2005–06, 1076) Treasury Select Committee,The Administration of Tax Credits (HC 2005–06, 811)
Chapter 11: Assets unrecovered
Cabinet Office,Recovering the Proceeds of Crime: A Performance and Innovation Unit Report (London: Cabinet Office, 2000) Jonathan Fisher, “The Serious Crime Bill 2007”, Tax Journal no. 873 (February 2007) 6–8 Gavin McFarlane, “The Assets Recovery Agency”,Tax Journal no. 716 (November 2003) 19–22 National Audit Office, The Assets Recovery Agency, HC 253 (London: Stationery Office, 2007) Public Accounts Committee,Assets Recovery Agency (HC 2006–07, 391) Grant Shapps, Report into the Underperformance of the Assets Recovery Agency, House of Commons, June 2006 Tamara Solecki, “Assets Recovery – Three Years On”, Tax Journal no. 855 (October 2006) 17–8
Chapter 12: Farmers fleeced
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee,Implementation of the CAP Reform in the UK (HC 2003–04, 226) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, The Rural Payments Agency and the Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme (HC 2006–07, 107) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, The Rural Payments Agency and the Implementation of the Single Payment Scheme: Government’s Response to the Committee’s Third Report (HC 2006–07, 956) bibliography
National Audit Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rural Payments Agency: The Delays in Administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England, HC 1631 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) National Audit Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rural Payments Agency: A Progress Update in Resolving the Difficulties in Administering the Single Payment Scheme in England, HC 10 (London: Stationery Office, 2007) National Audit Office,A Second Progress Update on the Administration of the Single Payment Scheme by the Rural Payments Agency, HC 880 (London: Stationery Office, 2009) Public Accounts Committee, The Delays in Administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England (HC 2006–07, 893) Public Accounts Committee,A Progress Update in Resolving the Difficulties in Administering the Single Payment Scheme in England (HC 2007–08, 285) Michael Woods, ed., New Labour’s Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain Since 1997 (Bristol: Policy Press, 2008)
Chapter 13: IT – technology and pathology
Tom Brown, “Modernisation or Failure? IT Development Projects in the UK Public Sector”, Financial Accountability and Management 17:4 (2001) 363–81 British Computer Society, The Way Forward for NHS Health Informatics, A Report on Behalf of the British Computer Society (BCS) by the BCS Health Informatics Forum Strategic Panel, December 2006 Cabinet Office,Successful IT: Modernising Government in Action (London: Cabinet Office, 2000) Communities and Local Government Committee, FiReControl (HC 2009–10, 352) Tony Collins with David Bicknell, Crash: Ten Easy Ways to Avoid a Computer Disaster (London: Simon & Schuster, 1997) Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow and Jane Tinkler,Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State, and E-Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Education and Skills Select Committee,UK e-University(HC 2004–05, 205) Health Select Committee,The Electronic Patient Record (HC 2006–07, 422) Helen Margetts, “E-Government in Britain – A Decade On”, Parliamentary Affairs 59:2 (2006) 250–65 bibliography
National Audit Office, Crown Prosecution Service, HC 327 (London: Stationery Office, 1997) National Audit Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: The Arable Area Payments Scheme, HC 223 (London: Stationery Office, 1999) National Audit Office,The Immigration and Nationality Directorate Casework Programme, HC 277 (London: Stationery Office, 1999) National Audit Office, The Cancellation of the Benefits Payment Card Project, HC 857 (London: Stationery Office, 2000) National Audit Office, The Implementation of the National Probation Service Information Systems Strategy, HC 401 (London: Stationery Office, 2001) National Audit Office, NIRS 2: Contract Extension, HC 355 (London: Stationery Office, 2001) National Audit Office, Better Public Services Through E-Government, HC 704 (London: Stationery Office, 2002) National Audit Office, New IT Systems for Magistrates’ Courts: The Libra Project, HC 327 (London: Stationery Office, 2003) National Audit Office, Improving IT Procurement: The Impact of the Office of Government Commerce’s Initiatives on Departments and Suppliers in the Delivery of Major IT-Enabled Projects, HC 877 (London: Stationery Office, 2004) National Audit Office,Department of Health: The National Programme for IT in the NHS, HC 1173 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) National Audit Office, HM Revenue & Customs: ASPIRE – The Re-Competition of Outsourced IT Services, HC 938 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) National Audit Office,Delivering Successful IT-Enabled Business Change, HC 33 (London: Stationery Office, 2006) National Audit Office,The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress Since 2006, HC 484 (London: Stationery Office, 2008) National Audit Office,The National Offender Management Information System, HC 292 (London: Stationery Office, 2009) National Audit Office,The Failure of the FiReControl Project, HC 1272 (London: Stationery Office, 2011) National Audit Office, Information and Communications Technology in Government: Landscape Review, HC 757 (London: Stationery Office, 2011) National Audit Office,HM Court Service Trust Statement for the Year Ended 31 March 2011 (London: Stationery Office, 2011) bibliography
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology,Government IT projects, Report 200, July 2003 Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, New NHS IT, Postnote 214, 2004 Public Accounts Committee,Crown Prosecution Service (HC 1997–98, 526) Public Accounts Committee, The Immigration and Nationality Directorate Casework Programme (HC 1998–99, 130) Public Accounts Committee, Improving the Delivery of Government IT Projects (HC 1999–2000, 65) Public Accounts Committee, The Cancellation of the Benefits Payment Card Project (HC 2001–02, 358) Public Accounts Committee,NIRS 2: Contract Extension (HC 2001–02, 423) Public Accounts Committee, New IT Systems for Magistrates’ Courts: the Libra Project (HC 2002–03, 434) Public Accounts Committee, Department of Health: The National Programme for IT in the NHS (HC 2006–07, 390) Public Accounts Committee, HM Revenue & Customs: ASPIRE – the Re- Competition of Outsourced IT Services (HC 2006–07, 179) Public Accounts Committee, The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress since 2006 (HC 2008–09, 153) Public Accounts Committee, The Implementation of the National Probation Service Information Systems Strategy (HC 2008–09, 357) Public Accounts Committee, The National Offender Management Information System (HC 2008–09, 510) Public Accounts Committee, The Failure of the FiReControl Project (HC 2010–12, 1397) Public Administration Select Committee,Government and IT – “A Recipe for Rip-Offs”: Time for a New Approach (HC 2010–12, 715) Public Administration Select Committee,Government and IT – “A Recipe for Rip-Offs”: Time for a New Approach: Further Report, With the Twentieth Report of Session 2010–12 (HC 1724) Justine Stephen, James Page, Jerrett Myers, Adrian Brown, David Watson and Ian Magee, System Error: Fixing the Flaws in Government IT (London: Institute for Government, 2011) Brenda Whittaker, “What Went Wrong? Unsuccessful Information Technology Projects”, Information Management and Computer Security 7:1 (1999) 23–9 bibliography
Chapter 14: Down the tubes
Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee, Funding of London Underground (HC 1999–2000, 411) Bent Flyvbjerg, Mette K. Skamris Holm and Søren L. Buhl, “What Causes Cost Overrun in Transport Infrastructure Projects?”, Transport Reviews 24:1 (2004) 3–18 Stephen Glaister, Rosemary Scanlon and Tony Travers, The Way Out: An Alternative Approach to the Future of the Underground, LSE London Discussion Paper No. 1 (London: London School of Economics, 1999) Stephen Glaister, “Transport”, in Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh, eds, The Blair Effect, 2001–2005 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Darrin Grimsey and Mervyn K. Lewis, Public Private Partnerships: The Worldwide Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance (Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 2004) London Assembly Transport Committee,A Tale of Two Infracos: The Transport Committee’s Review of the PPP (London: Greater London Assembly, 2007) National Audit Office,London Underground PPPs: Were They Good Deals?, HC 645 (London: Stationery Office, 2004) National Audit Office, The Failure of Metronet, HC 512 (London: Stationery Office, 2009) Office of the PPP Arbiter,Annual Metronet Report, 2006, (London: Office of the PPP Arbiter, 2006) Public Accounts Committee, London Underground Public-Private Partnerships (HC 2004–05, 446) Public Accounts Committee,Department for Transport: The Failure of Metronet (HC 2009–10, 390) Transport Select Committee, The London Underground and the Public-Private Partnerships (HC 2007–08, 45) Peter White, “Transport for London: Success Despite Westminster?” in Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw, eds, (Bristol: Policy Press, 2008) Christian Wolmar, Down the Tube: The Battle for London’s Underground (London: Aurum, 2002) Christian Wolmar, The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How It Changed the City Forever, 2nd edn (London: Atlantic Books, 2012) bibliography
Chapter 15: ID cards swiped
Perri 6, “Should We Be Compelled to Have Identity Cards? Justifications for the Legal Enforcement of Obligations”, Political Studies 53:2 (2005) 243–61 Jon Agar, “Modern Horrors: British Identity and Identity Cards”, in Jane Caplan and John Torpey, eds, Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001) Paul Beynon-Davies, “Personal Identity Management in the Information Polity: The Case of the UK National Identity Card”, Information Polity 11:1 (2006) 3–19 Cabinet Office,Identity Fraud: A Study (London: Cabinet Office, 2002) Rosemary Elliot, “An Early Experiment in National Identity Cards: The Battle Over Registration in the First World War”, Twentieth-Century British History 17:2 (2006) 145–76 Home Office,Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud: A Consultation Paper, Cm 5557 (London: Stationery Office, 2002) Home Office, Identity Cards: A Summary of Findings from the Consultation Exercise on Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud, Cm 6019 (London: Stationery Office, 2003) Home Office, Identity Cards: A Summary of Findings from the Consultation Exercise Legislation on Identity Fraud, Cm 6358 (London: Home Office, 2003) Identity Project, An Assessment of the UK Identity Cards Bill and its Implications (London: LSE Department of Information Systems, 2005) Adam N. Joinson, Carina Paine, Tom Buchanan and Ulf-Dietrich Reips, “Watching Me, Watching You: Privacy Attitudes and Reactions to Identity Card Implementation Scenarios in the United Kingdom”, Journal of Information Science 32 (2006) 334–43 Justice Committee,Protection of Private Data (HC 2007–08, 154) Peter Lilley, Identity Crisis: The Case Against ID Cards (London: Bow Publications, 2005) Science and Technology Committee,Identity Card Technologies: Scientific Advice, Risk and Evidence (HC 2005–06, 1032) Philip A. Thomas, “Identity Cards”,Modern Law Review 58 (1995) 702–13 John Wadham, Caoilfhionn Gallagher and Nicole Chrolavicius, Blackstone’s Guide to the Identity Cards Act 2006 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) bibliography
David Wills, “TheU nited Kingdom Identity Card Scheme: Shifting Motivations, Static Technologies”, in Colin J. Bennett and David Lyon, eds,Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective (London: Routledge, 2008)
Chapter 16: Cultural disconnect
David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) Steven Maynard-Moody, Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo, “Street-wise Social Policy: Resolving the Dilemma of Street-level Influence and Successful Implementation”, Western Political Quarterly 43:4 (1990) 833–48 Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Tax Credits: Getting it Wrong? (HC 2006–07, 1010) Lee Ross and Andrew Ward, “Naïve Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding”, in Edward S. Reed, Elliot Turiel and Terrance Brown, eds, Values and Knowledge (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996) Lee Ross, David Green and Pamela House, “The ‘False Consensus Effect’: An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes”, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 13:3 (1977) 279–301
Chapter 17: Group-think
C. Daniel Batson, et al., “Empathy and the Collective Good: Caring for One of the Others in a Social Dilemma”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 68:4 (1995) 619–34 Clint A. Bowers, James A. Pharmer and Eduardo Salas, “When Member Homogeneity is Needed in Work Teams: A Meta-Analysis”, Small Group Research 31:305 (2000) 305–27 Alan R. Dennis, “Information Exchange and Use in Group Decision Making: You Can Lead a Group to Information, but You Can’t Make It Think”, MIS Quarterly 20:4 (1996) 433–57 Michael A. Hogg and Sarah C. Hains, “Friendship and Group Identification: A New Look at the Role of Cohesiveness in Groupthink”, European Journal of Social Psychology 28:3 (1998) 323–41 bibliography
Irving L. Janis, Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, 2nd edn (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1982) Steven Maynard-Moody, Michael Musheno and Dennis Palumbo, “Street-wise Social Policy: Resolving the Dilemma of Street-level Influence and Successful Implementation”, Western Political Quarterly 43:4 (1990) 833–48 Frances J. Millikin and Luis L. Martins, “Searching for Common Threads: Understanding the Multiple Effects of Diversity in Organizational Groups”, Academy of Management Review 21:2 (1996) 402–33 Enid Curtis Bok Schoettle, “The State of the Art in Policy Studies”, in Raymond A. Bauer and Kenneth J. Gergen, eds, The Study of Policy Formation (New York: Free Press, 1968) Paul ’t Hart, Groupthink in Government: A Study of Small Groups and Policy Failure (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) Warren E. Watson, Kamalesh Kumar and Larry K. Michaelsen, “Cultural Diversity’s Impact on Interaction Process and Performance: Comparing Homogenous and Diverse Task Groups”, Academy of Management Journal 36:3 (1993) 590–602 Jim Welch, “The Best Teams are Emotionally Literate”, Industrial and Commercial Training 35:4 (2003) 168–70
Chapter 18: Prejudice and pragmatism
Gretchen B. Chapman and Eric J. Johnson, “Incorporating the Irrelevant: Anchors in Judgments of Belief and Value”, in Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin and Daniel Kahneman, eds, Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) John Duckitt, “A Dual-Process Cognitive-Motivational Theory of Ideology and Prejudice”, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 33 (2001) 41–77 William Greider, The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982) Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, “Choices, Values and Frames”, 1983 APA Award Addresses, American Psychologist 39:4 (1984) 341–50 Norbert L. Kerr, Robert J. MacCoun and Geoffrey P. Kramer, “Bias in Judgment: Comparing Individuals and Groups”, Psychological Review 103:4 (1996) 687–719 bibliography
Emily Pronin, “Perception and Misperception of Bias in Human Judgment”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11:1 (2006) 37–43 Milton Rokeach, “The Nature and Meaning of Dogmatism”,Psychological Review 61:3 (1954) 194–204 Milton Rokeach, The Open and Closed Mind: Investigations into the Nature of Belief Systems and Personality Systems (New York: Basic Books, 1960) Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, “Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases”, Science 185 (1974) 1124–31
Chapter 19: Operational disconnect
Andrew Dunsire, Implementation in a Democracy (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1978) Richard F. Elmore, “Backward Mapping: Implementation Research and Policy Decisions”, Political Science Quarterly 94:4 (1979–80) 601–16 Robert E. Hayes, “Strategic Planning – Forward in Reverse?”, Harvard Business Review 63 (1985) 111–19 Alex Miller, Strategic Management, 3rd edn (Boston, MA: Irwin/McGraw Hill, 1998) National School of Government, Engagement and Aspiration: Reconnecting Policy Making with Front Line Professionals, A Sunningdale Institute Report for the Cabinet Office (London: Cabinet Office, 2009) Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers (New York: Free Press, 1986) John R. Schermerhorn, Introduction to Management, 10th edn (New York: Wiley, 2010) Ralph D. Stacey, Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: The Challenges of Complexity, 3rd edn (Harlow, Essex: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2000) John Ward and Joe Peppard, Strategic Planning for Information Systems, 3rd edn (Chichester, Sussex: Wiley, 2002) Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design, 2nd edn (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005)
Chapter 20: Panic, symbols and spin
Michael Cockerell, Peter Hennessy and David Walker, Sources Close to the bibliography
Prime Minister: Inside the Hidden World of the News Manipulators (London: Macmillan, 1984) Malcolm Dean, Democracy under Attack: How the Media Distort Policy and Politics, 2nd edn (Bristol: Policy Press, 2013) Murray Edelman, The Symbolic Uses of Politics (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1964) Robert Harris, Good and Faithful Servant: The Unauthorized Biography of Bernard Ingham (London: Faber and Faber, 1990) Bernard Ingham, The Wages of Spin: A Clear Case of Communications Gone Wrong (London: John Murray, 2003) Nicholas Jones, Soundbites and Spindoctors: How Politicians Manipulate the Media – and Vice Versa (London: Cassell, 1995) Nicholas Jones, Sultans of Spin: The Media and New Labour (London: Victor Gollancz, 1999) Nicholas Jones, The Control Freaks: How New Labour Gets its Own Way (London: Politico’s, 2001) Nicholas Jones, Trading Information: Leaks, Lies and Tip-offs (London: Politico’s, 2006) Ralph Negrine, Politics and the Mass Media in Britain (London: Routledge, 1989) Lance Price, The Spin Doctor’s Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) Lance Price, Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers v the Media (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010)
Chapter 21: The centre cannot hold
Rudy Andeweg, “Collegiality and Collectivity: Cabinets, Cabinet Committees and Cabinet Ministers”, in Patrick Weller, Herman Bakvis and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives (London: Macmillan, 1997) Francis Beckett and David Hencke, The Blairs and their Court (London: Aurum, 2004) Andrew Blick and George Jones, Premiership: The Development, Nature and Power of the Office of the British Prime Minister (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010) Vernon Bogdanor, ed., Joined-Up Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005) bibliography
Nigel Bowles, Desmond S. King and Fiona Ross, “Political Centralization and Policy Constraint in British Executive Leadership: Lessons from American Presidential Studies in the Era of Sofa Politics”, British Politics 2:3 (2007) 372–94 Martin Burch and Ian Holliday, “The Blair Government and the Core Executive”, Government and Opposition 39:1 (2004) 1–21 Martin Burch and Ian Holliday, The British Cabinet System (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995) Jonathan S. Davies, “The Limits of Joined-Up Government: Towards a Political Analysis”, Public Administration 87:1 (2009) 80–96 Michael Foley, The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000) Michael Foley, “Presidential Attribution as an Agency of Prime Ministerial Critique in a Parliamentary Democracy: The Case of Tony Blair”,British Journal of Politics and International Relations 6:3 (2004) 292–311 Christopher Foster, “Cabinet Government in the Twentieth Century”, Modern Law Review 67:5 (2004) 753–71 Patrick Gordon Walker, The Cabinet (London: Fontana, 1973) Richard Heffernan, “Prime Ministerial Predominance? Core Executive Politics in the UK”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 5:3 (2003) 347–72 Peter Hennessy, Cabinet (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986) Peter Hennessy, “The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit”, Government and Opposition 33:1 (1998) 3–20 Peter Hennessy, “The Blair Style and the Requirements of Twenty-First Century Premiership”, Political Quarterly 71:4 (2000) 386–95 Peter Hennessy, “Rulers and Servants of the State: The Blair Style of Government 1997–2004”, Parliamentary Affairs 58:1 (2005) 6–16 Chris S. Huxham, “The Challenge of Collaborative Governance”, Public Management 2:3 (2000) 337–57 Simon James, British Cabinet Government (London: Routledge, 1999) Oliver James, “Executive Agencies and Joined-Up Government in the UK”, in Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot, eds, Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation (London: Routledge, 2004) Ivor Jennings, Cabinet Government, 3rd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959) bibliography
Tom Ling, “Delivering Joined-Up Government in the UK: Dimensions, Issues and Problems”, Public Administration 80:4 (2002) 615–42 Dennis Kavanagh and David Richards, “Departmentalism and Joined-Up Government: Back to the Future?”, Parliamentary Affairs 54:1 (2001) 1–18 John P. Mackintosh, The British Cabinet, 3rd edn (London: Stevens, 1977) Performance and Innovation Unit, Wiring It Up: Whitehall’s Management of Cross-cutting Policies and Services (London: Cabinet Office, 2000) B. Guy Peters, “Managing Horizontal Government: The Politics of Coordination”, Public Administration 76:2 (1998) 295–311 Christopher Pollitt, “Joined-Up Government: A Survey”, Political Studies Review 1:1 (2003) 34–49 Jonathan Powell, The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World (London: Bodley Head, 2010) Public Administration Committee, Making Government Work: The Emerging Issues (HC 2000–01, 94) Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Report of a Committee of Privy Counsellors, HC 898 (London: Stationery Office, 2004) R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy, eds, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive (Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1995) R. A. W. Rhodes, Everyday Life in British Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) Adrian Webb, “Coordination: A Problem in Public Sector Management”, Policy and Politics 19:4 (1991) 229–41 Paul Webb and Thomas Poguntke, “The Presidentialization of Contemporary Democratic Politics: Evidence, Causes and Consequences”, in Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb, eds, The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) Patrick Weller, Herman Bakvis and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives (London: Macmillan, 1997) Patrick Weller, “Cabinet Government: An Elusive Ideal?”, Public Administration 81 (2003) 701–22 Patrick Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901–2006: Practice, Principles, Performance (Sydney: University of South Wales Press, 2007) Harold Wilson, The Governance of Britain (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976) Richard Wilson, “Government: A Suitable Case for Treatment?”, Public Administration 89:1 (2011) 93–100 bibliography
Chapter 22: Musical chairs
R. K. Alderman, “A Defence of Frequent Ministerial Turnover”, Public Administration 73:4 (1995) 497–512 R. K. Alderman and J. A. Cross, “Ministerial Reshuffles and the Civil Service”, British Journal of Political Science 9:1 (1979) 41–65 R. K. Alderman and J. A. Cross, “Patterns of Turnover in Two Labour Cabinets”, Political Studies 29:3 (1981) 425–30 James E. Alt, “Continuity, Turnover and Experience in the British Cabinet, 1868–1970”, in Valentine Herman and James E. Alt, eds, Cabinet Studies: A Reader (London: Macmillan, 1975) Valentine Herman, “Comparative Perspectives on Ministerial Stability in Britain”, in Valentine Herman and James E. Alt, eds, Cabinet Studies: A Reader (London: Macmillan, 1975) John D. Huber and Cecilia Martinez-Gallerdo, “Cabinet Instability and the Accumulation of Experience: The French Fourth and Fifth Republics in Comparative Perspective”, British Journal of Political Science 34:1 (2004) 27-48 John D. Huber and Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, “Replacing Cabinet Ministers: Patterns of Ministerial Stability in Parliamentary Democracies”,American Political Science Review 102:2 (2008) 169–80. Peter Riddell, Zoe Gruhn and Liz Carolan, The Challenge of Being a Minister: Defining and Developing Ministerial Effectiveness (London: Institute for Government, 2011)
Chapter 23: Ministers as activists
Peter Barberis, ed., The Civil Service in an Era of Change (Aldershot, Hants: Dartmouth, 1997) Vernon Bogdanor, “The Civil Service”, in Vernon Bogdanor, ed., The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the British Academy, 2003) Jane Burnham and Robert Pyper, Britain’s Modernised Civil Service (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) Colin Campbell and Graham K. Wilson, The End of Whitehall: Death of a Paradigm? (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) Civil Service Commissioners, Changing Times: Leading Perspectives on the Civil bibliography
Service in the 21st Century and Its Enduring Values (London: Civil Service Commissioners, n.d.) Torun Dewan and David P. Myatt, “Scandal, Protection, and Recovery in the Cabinet”, American Political Science Review 101:1 (2007) 63–77 Bruce Headey, British Cabinet Ministers: The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974) Antony Jay, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (London: Allen Lane, 2011) David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992) David Marsh, David Richards and Martin J. Smith, Changing Patterns of Governance in the United Kingdom: Reinventing Whitehall? (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) Kenneth Minogue, “On Hyperactivism in Modern British Politics”, in Maurice Cowling, ed., Conservative Essays (London: Cassell, 1978) Richard E. Neustadt, “White House and Whitehall”, in Anthony King, ed., The British Prime Minister, 2nd edn (Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1985) William Plowden, Ministers and Mandarins (London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 1994) David Richards, New Labour and the Civil Service: Reconstituting the Westminster Model (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) Kevin Theakston,Leadership in Whitehall (London: Macmillan, 1999) Richard Wilding, Civil Servant: A Memoir (Stanhope, County Durham: Memoir Club, 2006)
Chapter 24: Accountability, lack of
Peter Barberis, “The New Public Management and a New Accountability”, Public Administration 76:3 (1998) 451–70 Anthony Barker, “Political Responsibility for the UK Prison Service: Ministers Escape Again”, Public Administration 76:1 (1998) 1–23 Richard Bellamy and Antonino Palumbo, eds, Political Accountability (Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate 2010) Samuel Berlinski, Torun Dewan and Keith Dowding, Accounting for Ministers: bibliography
Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945–2007 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Bill Blick, “Ministerial Responsibility in Practice: Ministerial Guide – A Commentary”, Australian Journal of Public Administration 58:1 (1999) 58–61. Jean Blondel and Nick Manning, “Do Ministers Do What they Say? Ministerial Unreliability, Collegiality and Hierarchical Government”, Political Studies 50:4 (2002) 455–76 Vernon Bogdanor, “Ministerial Accountability”, Parliamentary Affairs50:1 (1997) 71–83 Arjen Boin, Allan McConnell and Paul ’t Hart, eds, Governing After Crisis: The Politics of Investigation, Accountability and Learning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Emma Clarence, “Ministerial Responsibility and the Scottish Qualifications Agency”, Public Administration 80:4 (2002) 791– 803 Michael Doherty, “Prime Ministerial Power and Ministerial Responsibility in the Thatcher Era”, Parliamentary Affairs 41:1 (1988) 49–67 Patrick Dunleavy, George W. Jones, Jane Burnham, Robert Elgie and Peter Fysh, “Leaders, Politics and Institutional Change: The Decline of Prime Ministerial Accountability to the House of Commons, 1868–1990”, British Journal of Political Science 23:3 (1993) 267–98 David L. Ellis, “Collective Ministerial Responsibility and Collective Solidarity”, Public Law (Winter 1980) 367–96 Robert Gregory, “Political Responsibility for Bureaucratic Incompetence: Tragedy at Cave Creek”, Public Administration 76:3 (1998) 519–32 Lewis A. Gunn, “Politicians and Officials: Who is Answerable?”, Political Quarterly 43:3 (1972) 253–60 Simon Jenkins, Accountable to None: The Tory Nationalization of Britain (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995) Sir Ivor Jennings, The Law and the Constitution, 5th edn (London: University of London Press, 1959) Dorothy Johnstone, “Facelessness: Anonymity in the Civil Service”, Parliamentary Affairs 39:4 (1986) 407–20 George W. Jones, “An Answer: Stand up for Ministerial Responsibility”, Public Administration 65:1 (1987) 87–91 Christopher Kam, “Not Just Parliamentary ‘Cowboys and Indians’: Ministerial Responsibility and Bureaucratic Drift”, Governance 13:3 (2000) 365–92 bibliography
Andrew Massey, “Civil Service Reform and Accountability”, Public Policy and Administration 10:1 (1995) 16–33 Robin Mountfield, “Organizational Reform within Government: Accountability and Policy”, Public Administration and Development 17:1 (1997) 71–6 Charles Polidano, “The Bureaucrat Who FellU nder a Bus: Ministerial Responsibility, Executive Agencies and the Derek Lewis Affair in Britain”, Governance 12:2 (1999) 201–29 Charles Polidano, “The Bureaucrats Who Almost Fell Under a Bus: A Reassertion of Ministerial Responsibility?”, Political Quarterly (2000) 177–83 Charles Polidano, “An Exocet in a Red Box: Parliamentary Accountability in the Sandline Affair”, Public Administration 79:2 (2001) 249–75 Ann Robinson, F. F. Ridley and George W. Jones, “Symposium on Ministerial Responsibility”, Public Administration 65:1 (1987) 61–91 Richard Scott, “Ministerial Accountability”, Public Law (Autumn 1996) 410–26 Diana Woodhouse, “Ministerial Responsibility in the Twentieth Century”, in Vernon Bogdanor, ed., The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the British Academy, 2003) Diana Woodhouse, “UK Ministerial Responsibility in 2002: The Tale of Two Resignations”, Public Administration 82:1 (2004) 1–19
Chapter 25: A peripheral parliament
Klaus von Beyme, The Legislator: German Parliament as a Centre of Political Decision-making (Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1998) Alex Brazier and Ruth Fox, “Enhancing the Backbench MP’s Role as a Legislator: The Case forU rgent Reform of Private Members Bills”, Parliamentary Affairs 63:1 (2010) 201–11 Alex Brazier, Law in the Making: Influence and Change in the Legislative Process, (London: Hansard Society, 2008) Alex Brazier, ed., Parliament, Politics and Law Making: Issues and Developments in the Legislative Process (London: Hansard Society, 2004) Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart, “Parliament”, in Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh, eds, The Blair Effect 2001–5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Philip Cowley, “Parliament”, in Anthony Seldon, ed., Blair’s Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) bibliography
Philip Cowley, Revolts and Rebellions: Parliamentary Voting under Blair (London: Politico’s, 2002) Philip Cowley, The Rebels: How Blair Mislaid his Majority (London: Politico’s, 2005) Tom Dodd, “Parliament and Defence: A Summary of Parliament’s Role in Scrutinising and Controlling Defence Policy and the Armed Forces”, RUSI Journal 143:3 (1998) 29–35 Matthew Flinders, “Shifting the Balance? Parliament, the Executive and the British Constitution”, Political Studies 50:1 (2002) 23–42 Philip Giddings, “Select Committees and Parliamentary Scrutiny: Plus ça change?”, Parliamentary Affairs 47:4 (1994) 669–86 Hansard Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny, The Challenge for Parliament: Making Government Accountable (London: Hansard Society, 2001) Andrew Hindmoor, Phil Larkin and Andrew Kennon, “Assessing the Influence of Select Committees in theU K: The Education and Skills Committee, 1997–2005”, Journal of Legislative Studies 15:1 (2009) 71–89 Carole Johnson and Colin Talbot, “TheU K Parliament and Performance: Challenging or Challenged?”, International Review of Administrative Sciences 73:1 (2007) 113–31 David Judge, “Whatever Happened to Parliamentary Democracy in the United Kingdom?”, Parliamentary Affairs 57:3 (2004) 682–701 Matt Korris, “Standing Up for Scrutiny: How and Why Parliament Should Make Better Law”,Parliamentary Affairs 64:3 (2011) 564–74 Jessica Levy, “Public Bill Committees: An Assessment – Scrutiny Sought; Scrutiny Gained”, Parliamentary Affairs 63:3 (2010) 534–44 Ferdinand Mount, The British Constitution Now: Recovery or Decline? (London: Heinemann, 1992) Philip Norton, “Parliament”, in Anthony Seldon, ed., The Blair Effect (London: Little, Brown, 2001) Peter Riddell, “Prime Ministers and Parliament”, Parliamentary Affairs 57:4 (2004) 814–29 Peter Riddell, Parliament Under Blair (London: Politico’s, 2000) Jennifer Smookler, “Making A Difference? The Effectiveness of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny”, Parliamentary Affairs 59:3 (2006) 522–35 Andrew Tyrie, Mr Blair’s Poodle: An Agenda for Reviving the House of Commons (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 2000) bibliography
Chapter 26: Asymmetries of expertise
George A. Akerlof, “The Market for ‘Lemons’: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 84 (1970) 488–500 Torun Dewan and David P. Myatt, “The Declining Talent Pool of Government”, American Journal of Political Science 54:2 (2010) 267–86 Bruce Headey, “The Role Skills of Cabinet Ministers: A Cross-National Review”, Political Studies 22:1 (1974), 66–85 Public Administration Select Committee, Politics and Administration: Ministers and Civil Servants (HC 2006–07, 122) Alice Lam, “Embedded Firms, Embedded Knowledge: Problems of Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer in Global Cooperative Ventures”, Organization Studies 18 (1997) 973–96 Douglas W. Maynard, “Interaction and Asymmetry in Clinical Discourse”, American Journal of Sociology 97 (1991) 448–95 National Audit Office, Helping Government Learn, HC 129 (London: Stationery Office, 2009) National Audit Office,Commercial Skills for Complex Government Projects, HC 962 (London: Stationery Office, 2009) National Audit Office, Identifying and Meeting Central Government’s Skills Requirements, HC 1276 (London: Stationery Office, 2011) Talcott Parsons,The Social System (New York: Free Press, 1951) Alison Pilnick, “‘Why didn’t you say just that?’ Dealing with Issues of Asymmetry, Knowledge and Competence in the Pharmacist/Client Encounter”, Sociology of Health and Illness 20 (1998) 29–51 Public Administration Committee,Skills for Government (HC 2006–07, 93) Public Administration Committee,Good Government (HC 2008–09, 97) Public Administration Committee, Outsiders and Insiders: External Appointments to the Senior Civil Service (HC 2009–10, 241) Public Administration Select Committee, GOATs and Tsars: Ministerial and Other Appointments from Outside Parliament (HC 2009–10, 330) Ray Rees, “The Theory of Principal and Agent – Part I”, Bulletin of Economic Research 37 (1985) 3–26 Ray Rees, “The Theory of Principal and Agent – Part II”, Bulletin of Economic Research 37 (1985) 75–97 Anurag Sharma, “Professional as Agent: Knowledge Asymmetry in Agency bibliography
Exchange”, Academy of Management Review 22 (1997) 758–98 Gabriel Szulanski, “Exploring Internal Stickiness: Impediments to the Transfer of Best Practice Within the Firm”, Strategic Management Journal 17 (1996 Winter Special Issue) 27–43 Paul ten Have, “Talk and Institution: A Reconsideration of the ‘Asymmetry’ of Doctor-Patient Interaction”, in D. Boden and D. H. Zimmerman, eds, Talk and Social Structure (Cambridge: Polity, 1991)
Chapter 27: A deficit of deliberation
Dan Bloomfield, Kevin Collins, Charlotte Fry and Richard Munton, “Deliberation and Inclusion: Vehicles for Increasing Trust in UK Public Governance”, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 19:4 (2001) 501–13 Stephen Coleman, A Tale of Two Houses: The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the People at Home (London: Hansard Society, 2003) John S. Dryzek, Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) Maarten Hajer and Hendrik Wagenaar, eds, Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution,Fast-Track Legislation: Constitutional Implications and Safeguards (HL 2008–09, 116 I-II) Cheryl Simrell King; Kathryn M. Feltey; Bridget O’Neill Susel, “The Question of Participation: Toward Authentic Participation in Public Administration”, Public Administration Review 58:4 (1998) 317–26 John Parkinson, “The House of Lords: A Deliberative Democratic Defence”, Political Quarterly 78:3 (2007) 374–81
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