This article seeks to explain why spatial policy in England has been so ineffective in recent
decades. It offers a novel framework–'Hyper-Active Incrementalism'–to conceptualise the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on public service failure and
develop a research agenda for studying public service failure alongside private service …

The discipline of public policy has struggled to come to terms with how we may conceive of
'policy failure'. It tends to assume either that failure is self-evident or that it can be assessed …

Policy protagonists are keen to claim that policy is successful while opponents are more
likely to frame policies as failures. The reality is that policy outcomes are often somewhere in …

This is a book about bureaucracy and ethics. More specifically, it is a book about the ethos of
bureaucratic office. It represents an attempt to recover a certain ethical dignity for a particular …

Why does public management-the art of the state-so often go wrong, producing failure and
fiasco instead of public service? What are the different ways in which control or regulation …

Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year).
They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments …

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship …

Recent studies by Hood have underscored the significance of the desire of decision-makers
to avoid blame for poor policy initiatives, highlighting the importance to policy-making of …

It is fifty years since the first edition of this book was published. There have been many
changes in the style and content of planning in the UK since then and this is reflected in the …