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Editorial Tony Butcher Goldsmiths College, University ofLondon Andrew Massey Portsmouth University The commitment to modernising the public service has been a constant theme of governments for over twenty years. This commitment to modernisation has encompassed many approaches under a variety of labels, such as New Public Re-engineering and Reinventing Government. Different countries Management, have used privatisation, marketisation and the agencification of the public sector to differing degrees, and with often very different results. The innovations and of the modernising process have varied, as has the impact of dynamics globalisation and new technologies. In attempting to modernise their public services, the liberal democratic the USA and much of Europe countries that constitute the Old Commonwealth, public have had to wrestle with the tensions that have been built into their administration systems from the beginning of the modem era of government. The desire of the executive to deliver its policies often caused elected politicians to experience frustration with the reluctance of appointed officials to simply do as they were told. Public officials, however, evolved the concept of public duty; that is, the belief that, although they must serve the government of the day to the best of their ability, this was
Public Policy and Administration – SAGE
Published: Jul 1, 2001
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