40PS: Public Management

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40PS Public Management Administration

• Lecture 20. Joined-up Government - From
  Government to Governance
• William Webster
• Management Oganization
• Spring 2003

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Introduction

• What is joined-up government?
• What is joined-up government designed to achieve?
• How is joined-up government being realised in
  practice?
• What are the barriers to joined-up government?

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What is Joined-up Government?

• Modernising Government
• Joined-up policy making
• Joined-up services
• Partnership and collaboration
• Joined-up working
• Cross cutting policies and services PIU
  Report, 2000

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What is Joined-up Government Designed to Achieve?

• Departmentalism
• The fragmented state
• Wicked issues
• Strategic overview
• Co-ordination
• Better public services

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Previous Attempts to Combat Departmentalism

• 1951-3 - Churchills Overlords
• 1970s - The Reorganisation of Central
• Government White Paper 1970
• - Central Policy Review Staff CPRS
• 1980s - The Tory Years - competition and
• cost cutting
• 1997 - Modernising Government 1999

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Labours Response Towards Joined-up Government

• Task Forces Tsars
• Social Exclusion Unit, 1997
• Policy and Innovation Unit PIU
• Strategic Communications Unit, 1998
• Treasury Spending Review, 1997-8
• Number 10
• Cabinet Office

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Barriers to Joined-up Government

• Parliamentary Accountability
• The Fragmented State
• Departmentalism A Permanent Feature?
• Culture
• Competing Power Centres
• IT Provision

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Back to the Future?

• We would argue that in order to overcome the
  pathology of departmentalism and instead create a
  permanent process of joined-up policy-making
  this requires not just renovation but an
  overhaul of the institutions of the core
  executive
• Kavanagh Richards, 2001, pp.17-18

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Bibliography

• Kavanagh, D. and Richards, D. 2001.
  Departmentalism and joined-up government back to
  the future. Parliamentary Affairs, Vol.54, No.
  1, pp.1-18.
• Cabinet Office. 2000. E.gov Electronic
  Government Services for the 21st Century.
  Performance and Innovation Unit Report.
  September.
• Cabinet Office. 2000. Wiring it Up Whitehalls
  Management of Cross-Cutting Policies and
  Services. Performance and Innovation Unit Report.
  January.
• Cabinet Office. 1999. Modernising Government.
  Cmnd.4310, HMSO.
• The Reorganisation of Central Government. 1970.
  Cmnd.4505, HMSO.
• Scottish Executive. 1999. Making it Work
  Together A Programme for Government.