8. Governing Through Bureaucracy

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE British Politics Pub Date : 2021-12-21 DOI:10.1093/hepl/9780198840626.003.0008

P. John

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Abstract

This chapter explores the central government departments, executive agencies, and other public bureaucracies in operation in the UK today, such as those in local and territorial governments. These bodies help make and implement public policies and run public services. The chapter reviews more general work on bureaucracy and public administration, and sets out the theory of politician–bureaucrat relationships (going back to the principal–agent model), before addressing the classic question of civil service influence over public policy. It then takes account of the diversity of bureaucratic organizations operating in Britain today. The chapter also looks at the evidence of how politicians manage to satisfy their political objectives through delegating authority to these bodies.

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8. 官僚统治

本章探讨了今天在英国运作的中央政府部门、执行机构和其他公共官僚机构，如地方和领土政府。这些机构帮助制定和实施公共政策，并管理公共服务。本章回顾了更多关于官僚制和公共行政的一般性研究，并在解决公务员对公共政策的影响这一经典问题之前，阐述了政治家-官僚关系理论(回到委托-代理模型)。然后，它考虑到今天在英国运作的官僚机构的多样性。本章还考察了政治家如何通过将权力下放给这些机构来实现其政治目标的证据。

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British Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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2.40

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： British Politics offers the only forum explicitly designed to promote research in British political studies, and seeks to provide a counterweight to the growing fragmentation of this field during recent years. To this end, the journal aims to promote a more holistic understanding of British politics by encouraging a closer integration between theoretical and empirical research, between historical and contemporary analyses, and by fostering a conception of British politics as a broad and multi-disciplinary field of study. This incorporates a range of sub-fields, including psephology, policy analysis, regional studies, comparative politics, institutional analysis, political theory, political economy, historical analysis, cultural studies and social policy. While recognising the validity and the importance of research into specific aspects of British politics, the journal takes it to be a guiding principle that such research is more useful, and indeed meaningful, if it is related to the field of British politics in a broader and fuller sense. The scope of the journal will therefore be broad, incorporating a range of research papers and review articles from all theoretical perspectives, and on all aspects of British politics, including policy developments, institutional change and political behaviour. Priority will, however, be given to contributions which link contemporary developments in British politics to theoretical and/or historical analyses. The aim is as much to encourage the development of empirical research that is theoretically rigorous and informed, as it is to encourage the empirical application of theoretical work (or at least to encourage theorists to explicitly signify how their work could be applied in an empirical manner).