The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993

by Colin Thain, Maurice Wright

Overview

With unique access to treasury Expenditure Controllers and senior financial officials in the main spending departments, the authors of this work provide a detailed and authoritative account of the roles, relationships, and inter-actions of the key players in Whitehall Expenditure Community as they confront each other in annual rituals of the Expenditure "Survey". Thain and Wright explain how the rules of the expenditure game were re-drawn in the 1980s in the relentless search for cuts, greater economy and efficiency in the design and delivery of public services, and the creation of a more enterprising administrative culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198277842
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/14/1995
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.53(d)

About the Author

University of Ulster

University of Manchester

Editorial Reviews

"...This is a book that ought to be read by all students of British politics, by new institutionalists, budgetary politics specialists, and students of the comparative economic policymaking process. It gives great insight into policymaking within the original Westminster model at a time when this is more under strain than ever before."—American Political Science Review

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