Public Services Under New Labour: Back to Bureaucracy?

George A. Boyne

Public Money & Management, 1998, vol. 18, issue 3, 43-50

Abstract: The public service policies of the present Labour Government are assessed against a conceptual model of bureaucracy. In particular, is there evidence of a shift away from the market reforms of the Conservatives, and a move towards bureaucratic methods of resource allocation and service delivery? It is concluded that there is a small, but significant, shift back to bureaucracy: if Conservative policies consisted of ‘marketization at the margins’, then Labour reforms can be described as ‘bureaucratization at the boundaries’. The potential consequences of this change in emphasis are considered.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00126

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