Policy Planning Units ‐ Ten Years On

MacDonald, James; Fry, Geoffrey K.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1980.tb00415.x

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“…Programme Analysis and Review (PAR) had been formally abandoned in 1979 after gradually evaporating over the years (see Gray and Jenkins 1983). Policy planning units within government departments had largely failed to provide a systematic analytical input to decision-making (see Macdonald and Fry 1980;Prince 1983). The Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS), after performing various roles at different stages of its existence, was abolished in 1983 (see Blackstone and Plowden 1988).…”

Section: Policy Studies and The Public Sectormentioning

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Public Policy

Hogwood

1995

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Public policy is not simply a subset of public administration, but draws on and contributes to a number of aspects of public administration, political science and other disciplines. This article traces the growth of interest in a policy focus in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s, and its subsequent partial displacement by the emphasis on public management. Despite this partial displacement, the policy focus is now institutionalized in academic research, textbooks, journals and teaching. The recent lack of interest in generic policy analysis by British central government is reflected in the way in which the policy aspects have been an afterthought to managerial and organization changes. There is plenty of scope for further refining the skills of those who research, teach and are taught in public policy.

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Section: Policy Studies and The Public Sectormentioning

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1995

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Long¹

1982

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Economics and the Poverty of Social Planning

Booth

1982

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This article examines the reasons for the dismal state of social planning in Britain today. Several different explanations for this situation are discussed including its poor track‐record, official reluctance to contemplate the future, the circumscribed and narrowly conceived way it is approached, and the ill coordinated and fragmented structure of the social services. While all these are seen to offer part of the answer, it is argued that the main obstacle to social planning lies in the subordination of social goals to economic objectives; a fact itself rooted in the persistence of the ‘public burden model’ of social expenditure. Finally, the implications of this analysis for social policy research are discussed.

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Policy Planning Units ‐ Ten Years On

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