The Political Administration of Economic Decline: British Central Government Since the 1960s
本文探讨了1970年代中期以来英国中央政府从乐观理性主义转向悲观实用主义的行政风格变化，并对比了英美公共部门的异同。
Most British public administration textbooks still seem to conclude with discussion of the way ahead after the Fulton Report on the Civil Service; of the creation of new giant departments and semi-independent agencies; or of improving techniques for policy analysis and the medium-term planning of public expenditure. Yet to the designers of Whitehall these are the themes of a bygone age: tunes played with gusto in the late '60s and early '70s which quickly became quite unfashionable. A more pessimistic, pragmatic style has long since replaced the optimistic rationalism of that distant-seeming period. The present paper seeks to map this change by identifying some of the key structural elements underlying the watershed of the mid-1970s.1 In so doing certain tentative parallels (and differences) are identified as between the British and U.S. public sectors.