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Better Policy Support: Improving Policy Management in the Public Service  
Mohan Kaul

Series name: Managing the Public Service Strategies for Improvement Series
Series number: 4

Size: 237 mm x 158 mm
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Categories: Management in Public Service, Managing the Public Service: Strategies for Improvement Series

ISBN No: 978-0-85092-518-0

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Publication Date: 01-1997
Number of Pages: 74

Status: In stock

Price: £ 9.00    [Currency converter]  


Description

Looks at ways of improving policy management from personnel, organisational and institutional perspectives.

Contents

Introduction
Background
Process dimensions of policy management
Role and responsibilities in policy management
Institutional arrangements for policy management
*The cabinet office system
*Policy units near Heads of Government
*Policy units within different government departments
*Policy capacities at arm's length from government
* Ad hoc use of special capacities
Annexes
 

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