40 Years of public management reform in UK central government – promises, promises ...
尽管英国在公共管理改革中领先且持续变革数十年，但对最终成果知之甚少，本文从技术、政治和制度三方面解释了为何改革影响难以评估。
Despite the UK’s leading role in public management reform, and decades of continuous change, little has been learned of the final outcomes. Our understandings of the impacts are fragmentary. A theoretical explanation has three elements. The first comprises the inherent technical and methodological difficulties of evaluating complex major organisational change over time. The second identifies reasons why it is unlikely that most executive politicians will invest energy in systematic evaluation. The third emphases specific institutional features of organisational reform in UK central government. Changes can be made and remade with (comparative) ease – tempting elites constantly to reinvent.