Overview
- Evaluates the state of accountability, transparency and public assurance in local public services under recent UK governments
- Develops the conceptual notion of accountability in the context of English public service and an evaluative model
- Argues for a new superordinate conceptualisation of accountability
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Keywords
- service delivery
- public services
- organisational accountability
- evaluative model
- retrospective and prospective accountability
- Audit Commission
- Local Government
- accountability arrangements
- Health and Social Care
- systematic change
- police reforms
- Police and Crime Commissioners
- Fire and Rescue Services
- austerity localism
- accountability and transparency
- multiple and contingent
- public service accountability
- British Politics
Table of contents (7 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Laurence Ferry is Professor of Accounting at Durham University, UK. He is a well-recognised international expert in public financial management.
Russ Glennon is a Senior Lecturer in management and leadership at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, and specialises in public policy and management.
Kirsten Greenhalgh is Associate Professor of Accounting at Nottingham University Business School, UK, and has a professional background in management accounting in the NHS and local government.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Service Accountability
Book Subtitle: Rekindling a Debate
Authors: Peter Murphy, Laurence Ferry, Russ Glennon, Kirsten Greenhalgh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93384-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93383-2Published: 26 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06650-5Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93384-9Published: 17 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 146
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, British Politics, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, Development and Health