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Markets, Bureaucracy and Public Management: The Worst of Both Worlds? Public Services without Markets or Bureaucracy

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In recent years there has been growing support for the idea of developing collaborative network relationships between purchasers and providers in UK public services. Under the new Labour Government this idea found its way into policies aimed at promoting a ‘third way’ between markets and hierarchies in health and local government. This article addresses a number of concerns about these developments. Drawing on the wider management literature, it argues that recent discussions have largely under-stated the problems associated with relational contracting and networks. The author also considers why the option of a return to hierarchy has so far been dismissed and argues for a reversal of this tendency.

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  • Ian Kirkpatrick, 1999. "Markets, Bureaucracy and Public Management: The Worst of Both Worlds? Public Services without Markets or Bureaucracy," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 7-14, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:19:y:1999:i:4:p:7-14
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00183
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    1. Damian Grimshaw, 2013. "Austerity, privatization and levelling down: Public sector reforms in the United Kingdom," Chapters, in: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.), Public Sector Shock, chapter 15, pages 576-626, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Gloria Agyemang, 2009. "Responsibility and accountability without direct control?," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 22(5), pages 762-788, June.
    3. Ian Kirkpatrick, 2006. "Between markets and networks: the reform of social care provision in the UK," Revista de Analisis Economico – Economic Analysis Review, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business, vol. 21(2), pages 43-59, December.
    4. Micol Bronzini, 2016. "Il benessere organizzativo in sanit?. Riflessioni da una ricerca sui medici marchigiani," PRISMA Economia - Societ? - Lavoro, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2016(1), pages 90-114.
    5. Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.), 2013. "Public Sector Shock," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 15209.
    6. Thanos Papadopoulos, 2012. "Public–Private Partnerships from a Systems Perspective: A Case in the English National Health Service," Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(4), pages 420-435, July.
    7. Olov Olson & Christopher Humphrey & James Guthrie, 2001. "Caught in an evaluatory trap: a dilemma for public services under NPFM," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 505-522.

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