Andrew Massey

King's College London | KCL · International School for Government

"This article addresses an approach to explore and tackle some of the existential threats (wicked problems) that face public administration globally. It seeks to build on existing work to suggest some defining traits in terms of ‘wicked’ issues and problems that are being explored again by governments and international organizations such as the OEC...

This Policy Insight paper places the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of good governance. It explores what constitutes Good Governance, from a public administration perspective, and charts the manner in which SDGs and good governance are linked, before suggesting ways in which governments may achieve the aims of the SDGs. It...

The principal lesson of this chapter is that politics is the driving force for change, not managerial or technocratic efficiency drivers; managerialism is a tool of control. This has profound consequences for issues of accountability. The chapter focuses on the contours of accountability within the context of the contemporary UK reform agendas thro...

This paper explores how we may better understand public administration and public sector management reform. We often interpret our world through stories and this allows us to mentally map where we have been and where we are going to. The paper explores developments in understanding public awareness and that of policy-makers and its impact on policy...

The chapter reviews the evolution of the state of the art of research in public administration and management in Europe since WWII. It argues that a pan-European community has developed, flanking and in many respects integrating the distinct national communities that characterised the field till the 1970s/1980s. After a bibliographical review of th...

This paper reviews governance and public governance related to an emerging area of policy interest – social innovation. The European Commission's White Paper on European Governance (2001) focused on openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness and coherence in public policy as characteristics of good governance. The EC has prioritised soc...

The International Handbook of Public Administration and Governance is a ground-breaking volume with eminent scholars addressing the key questions in relation to how international governments can solve public administration and governance challenges in an increasingly globalized world. With international coverage across Africa, Asia, Europe, Austral...

This Handbook on civil service systems is truly international and comparative. It covers and compares countries from all continents. It also connects historical (Weberian) legacies to contemporary challenges such as coordination, the hollow state, and trust. Massey's Handbook does not avoid difficult issues for civil service systems such as ruined...

This article explores the governance implications for the UK of the financial crisis. It locates the UK’s system as a differentiated polity within a system of multi-level governance, noting the importance of EU institutions in reassessing the regulatory framework for the finance industry. It explores the historical, political and theoretical contex...

By examining both analytical and empirical differences and similarities between the European Union and the United States, this comprehensive book provides a better understanding of (inter) governmental systems, settings and actors operating in the post New Public Management Era. The expert contributors consider processes of policy formulation and i...

The social and political context within which public administration is located determines the effectiveness of service delivery as well as the way in which policy is made and implemented. This article explores the issues of ‘modernization’ and New Public Management (NPM) advocated by the Bretton Woods Institutions as a process of strongly encouragi...

Substantial sums of money are spent in the UK funding Masters of Public Administration (MPA) programmes. In the current financial climate, learners and employers are seeking evidence that courses provide relevance, value for money and return on their investment. New guidance has been developed by government and academic groups to set a benchmark fo...

Substantial sums of money are spent in the UK funding Masters of Public Administration (MPA) programmes. In the current financial climate, learners and employers are seeking evidence that courses provide relevance, value for money and return on their investment. New guidance has been developed by government and academic groups to set a benchmark fo...

Programme Review in the UK : Measuring Performance This article examines how the UK undertakes regular programme reviews. It shows how these reviews are carried out, particularly with regard to the performance of public policies. Performance is understood in the wide sense of the term, which even includes the utility of the policy in question. It s...

The concept of ‘policy transfer’ is contested. Earlier work has discussed the defining traits, but generally concluded that the dissimilarities of regional and local implementation ensure a simple transfer in the form of a generic template remains elusive (Common 20016. Common , R. 2001. Public management and policy transfer in South East Asia, Al...

This chapter sets the scene for a detailed exploration of the human factor in global governance, both in theory and in practice. While emerging systems or patterns of global governance are open to a variety of interpretations and possible descriptions, two prominent features are singled out in this chapter for particular attention. The first concer...

This article contributes to the understanding of European Local Governance by exploring the European funding networks developed within local areas under Objective 2 of the Structural Funds. The article describes the EU funding networks (within the theoretical perspective of network theory) and examines the relationship between the presence of local...

THIS ARTICLE COMPARES THE US AND BRITISH EXPERIENCE OF privatization policies. In both countries there is no ‘proof’ that privatization has led to any empirically measurable benefit, or that the new structures are necessarily more consumer-oriented. First the perceived need for change in the public sector is explored, outlining the dynamic provided...

The role of professionals in delivering goods and services on behalf of governments has, in recent times, been transformed. Not only that, but the regulation of their activities has come under increasing scrutiny. It is time to reassess the role and responsibilities of professionals, especially as they all have a dual allegiance to their employer a...

This broad and all-encompassing study focuses on Europe's new policy agendas. It brings together international academic experts on a range of policies to discuss Europe's place in the world and its relationship to the USA and beyond.

This comprehensive introductory text starts by charting the origins and evolution of the shift from public administration to public management and moves on to assess the main theories and debates about its character, benefits and problems. After consideration of the party political issues and debates and continuities and discontinuities between the...

This paper explores the dynamics for changes to the machinery of government and public administration in the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. Although constitutionally Crown possessions and under the jurisdiction of the UK, both territories are self-governing and are neither part of the UK nor the EU. Their importance as major offshore tax havens...

The Labour Government elected to office in Britain in 1997 is committed to modernisation. Observers may detect an echo here of earlier species of Labour modernisers, but the plans of all contemporary European governments, are located within the context of the Europeanisation of European governance. It is a process that impacts upon members of the E...

'This book provides solid academic evidence of a lively debate and dialogue between US and EU scholars about Multilevel Governance (MLG) and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR). Beyond the contingencies of the terms and the path dependency of their historical developments, there are elements of convergence and overlap. This publication is a good exam...

This book is concerned with the civil services of the United Kingdom, examining their characteristics and trends since 1970. It provides a map of the British civil service beyond Whitehall, giving an individual country-by-country analysis of the civil services of the UK. It considers the implications of the changing nature of the civil services for...

This book is concerned with the civil services of the United Kingdom, examining their characteristics and trends since 1970. It provides a map of the British civil service beyond Whitehall, giving an individual country-by-country analysis of the civil services of the UK. It considers the implications of the changing nature of the civil services for...

'This is an excellent collection of papers examining the dimensions of change in contemporary civil service systems. It is especially valuable in linking changes in the civil service with other changes in governing.'

The civil service role in the Westminster model is to inform and implement central government policy. The authors argue that extensive public sector reforms and changes in UK governance mean that the Westminster model no longer provides an adequate explanation of how government works. Thus the United Kingdom is now a ‘Disunited Kingdom’.

The civil service role in the Westminster model is to inform and implement central government policy. The authors argue that extensive public sector reforms and changes in UK governance mean that the Westminster model no longer provides an adequate explanation of how government works. Thus the United Kingdom is now a 'Disunited Kingdom'.

The steady integration of the European Union over many years has involved the formulation and implementation of many policies. One of the results has been the establishment of new legal and institutional structures in public administration of a supranational nature. Issues of structure are combined with those of efficiency, effectiveness and accoun...

Benchmarking grew out of the concern for measuring performance and quality in the public sector, the latest manifestation of the change that has transformed the way in which the public sector operates. From the TQA movement of the 1980s, benchmarking has emerged in the UK, via the EFQM Excellence Model, as a formidable tool to seek to ascertain and...

This article addresses the `quango' problem facing an incoming government. It explores the difficulties for embarking on policy innovation faced by modern British governments, and then looks at the problems of defining and charting Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), before analysing the effects of managerial and structural reform and the issue...

The fragmentation of the machinery of government is one of the effects of the impact of agencification and other new managerial techniques being implemented throughout the Western World. This paper seeks a definition of the agency model, and then applies it to the British context, before examining the issue of policy ownership. The analysis suggest...

Using existing documentation and some original survey and interviewing work, this paper explores the recent reforms in British central government. It attempts to measure them against the analytical perspective of NPM and the postbureau cratic reform paradigm and to discover how the impact of these reforms has transformed the accountability of publi...

This paper places this special issue of Public Policy and Administration in the context of a PAC sponsored research workshop, held at the University of Portsmouth in early 1994. The paper then explores the background to Market Testing, arguing it must be seen as a progression from many of the reforms imposed on the civil service over the last fifte...

Engineering lies at the heart of industry, it is essential to acquire sufficient numbers of properly trained people in order that economic revival can be maintained. Yet cultural bias and demography threaten this goal. This article examines what is meant by the term ‘engineer’ and relates it to the concept of professional status, a recognition of w...

This book arrives in an age of growing unease and dissatisfaction with the reassurances, by the nuclear power industry, of the safety of its power stations. The book's central purpose is to examine the motivations and varied perceptions which have laid the foundation for Britain's contemporary civil nuclear industry. The author pays particular atte...

The concept of 'policy transfer' is contested. Earlier work has discussed the defining traits, but generally concluded that the dissimilarities of regional and local implementation ensure a simple transfer in the form of a generic template remains elusive (Common, 2001). The argument of this paper is that it is more accurate to refer to policy mime...

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