What have been the main drivers of change which have led to reform of the way public services are
delivered since the late 1970’s?
Core Text: Flynn, N (2012, 6th edition) (the 5th Edition, 2007, is also very useful) Public Sector
Management, London: Sage
Hughes OE, (2012, 4th ed), Public Management and Administration: An Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan (Note: earlier Editions of this book is also useful for topics in the early part of the
module).
Bovaird, T and Loffler, E (2009, 2nd Ed) Public Management and Governance, London: Routledge
Ferlie E, Lynn L, Pollitt C (eds) (2005) The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Oxford: Oxford
University Press
Smith, MJ and Richards, D (2002) Governance and Public Policy in the UK (Oxford: Oxford University
Press)- Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7
Barr, N (2012) (5th Ed) The Economics of the Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press)- Ch. 2 and
Ch. 3.4- 3.7.
Hood, C (1991) ‘A Public Management for all seasons?’ Public Administration69 1991: 3-19
Levy, R (2010) New Public Management end of an Era?Public Policy and AdministrationVol. 25 no. 2 234-240
McKinsey- Centre for Government- especially for ‘Government Designed for New Times’
www.mckinsey.com/client_service/public_sector/mckinsey_center_for_government
Osborne, S (2002) ‘From Public Administration to Public Governance: Public Management and Public
Services in the Twenty-First Century’ in McLaughlin, K, Osborne, SP and Ferlie, E (Eds) The New Public
Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects (London: Routledge)
2020 Public Services Trust (2010)A Brief History of Public Services Reform; also Drivers for Change
available on-line from their web-sitehttp://www.2020publicservicestrust.org/page.asp-p=3131.html
Kings Fund- Time to think differently – a very useful resource to be found at
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/time-to-think-differently – see especially Future Trendsand the Future
Trends Timeline; also the Time for Change slidepackat http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/time-to-think-
differently/audio-video/case-change-slide-pack
For International perspectives
Hughes-Ch.14
OECD- on the OECD website there are a number of useful resources including country- by country profiles
of spending on public services and related data- see
http://www.oecd.org/gov/governmentataglance2011.htm
Public Services International Research Unit at http://www.psiru.org/about-us
World Bank- a variety of sources – International perspectives- on
http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/category/tags/public-sector-management; in particular
http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/30-years-of-public-management-reforms-has-there-been-a-pattern
Hodge, G, Greve, C and Boardman AE (2010) International Handbook on public-private
partnershipsCheltenham: Edward Elgar (this is available also as an e-book via the library).
Miles, E and Trott, W (2011) Collaborative Working -Available from the Institute for Government web-site
at http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/