Since the global financial crisis of 2008 there has been an added impetus towards reconsideration of the shape of the British state. The search for a ‘smarter state’ which is smaller and cheaper has particularly affected the field of central-local government relations
This article highlights how recent reforms to the auditing and assessment of local public services i...
Professor Christopher Bovis (University of Central Lancashire) assesses the concept of best value in...
Austerity policies have affected local government for over a decade challenging their financial resi...
The abolition of the Audit Commission and the scrapping of centralised performance management system...
Austerity strained the financial sustainability of governments and ability of policy-makers to addre...
This article outlines how a local authority, Newcastle City Council (NCC), employed a public value s...
As part of the ‘devolution revolution’ the UK central government devolved a general power of compete...
English local government audit has gone through fundamental change in the last decade and this perio...
A key institutional driver of current reforms within English local government is ‘alternative servic...
I welcome this opportunity to submit written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on t...
I welcome this opportunity to submit written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the ...
Austerity strained the financial sustainability of governments and ability of policy makers to addre...
In investigating the operation of the rescue culture in the Commonwealth Caribbean as compared to th...
Retrieving the language of stakeholding would enable Labour to offer a compelling political future
This paper explains how the UK central government has changed accountability and audit arrangements ...
This article highlights how recent reforms to the auditing and assessment of local public services i...
Professor Christopher Bovis (University of Central Lancashire) assesses the concept of best value in...
Austerity policies have affected local government for over a decade challenging their financial resi...
The abolition of the Audit Commission and the scrapping of centralised performance management system...
Austerity strained the financial sustainability of governments and ability of policy-makers to addre...
This article outlines how a local authority, Newcastle City Council (NCC), employed a public value s...
As part of the ‘devolution revolution’ the UK central government devolved a general power of compete...
English local government audit has gone through fundamental change in the last decade and this perio...
A key institutional driver of current reforms within English local government is ‘alternative servic...
I welcome this opportunity to submit written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on t...
I welcome this opportunity to submit written evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the ...
Austerity strained the financial sustainability of governments and ability of policy makers to addre...
In investigating the operation of the rescue culture in the Commonwealth Caribbean as compared to th...
Retrieving the language of stakeholding would enable Labour to offer a compelling political future
This paper explains how the UK central government has changed accountability and audit arrangements ...
This article highlights how recent reforms to the auditing and assessment of local public services i...
Professor Christopher Bovis (University of Central Lancashire) assesses the concept of best value in...
Austerity policies have affected local government for over a decade challenging their financial resi...