Tag: Christopher Hood

Repeated government ‘makeovers’ have not created a government machine that works better and costs less

Repeated government ‘makeovers’ have not created a government machine that works better and costs less

What do we have to show for thirty years of makeovers in UK central government? Has a relentless focus on cost-cutting damaged traditional administrative values? In a wide-ranging study of UK central government, Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon found that not only did formal complaints and legal challenges to central government rise sharply over the three decades up to […]