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The Flawed Debate

In: The Evolution of Public Management

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  • Colin Duncan
  • K. Ian Sams
  • Philip J. White

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Few could deny that the workings of the NHS were affected by some kind of crisis towards the end of the 1980s. Indeed, no other recent social issue has been the subject of such exhaustive inquiry and debate as this phenomenon and the associated reform process currently under way. One positive result has been the generation of a massive volume of research material relating to the operation of a major public body, which will provide for many years a rich source of case study material pertaining to the characteristics, constraints, strengths and failings of the public management process. Yet the sheer volume of information generated, the continuing outpourings on NHS matters, the pace of reforms and the emotion and controversy the topic seems to generate, present formidable difficulties in taking stock and locating developments in a sustainable framework. Thus in contrast to the great volume of polemical and campaigning literature, detached, retrospective analyses of events are as yet rare.

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  • Colin Duncan & K. Ian Sams & Philip J. White, 1992. "The Flawed Debate," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Colin Duncan (ed.), The Evolution of Public Management, chapter 12, pages 263-296, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11473-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11473-3_12
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