Chapter 8 DEPARTMENT AND AGENCIES

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Chapter 8DEPARTMENT AND AGENCIES

• Fragmentation of the Westminster system
• Continuing importance of Departments
• Next Steps origins and development
• Regulation of privatised industries
• Widening range of regulatory agencies
• The new Regulatory State

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Fragmentation of the Westminster system

• Historic dominance of the Civil Service
  Department
• Impact of new Agency creation
• Impact of privatisation

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Continuing importance of Departments

• Political functions accountability symbolic
  importance
• Economic functions the struggles for resources
• Administrative functions policy delivery

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Next Steps origins and development

• Next Steps Agencies principles
• Next Steps Agencies operating practices
• Next Steps Agencies scale and range

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Regulation of privatised industries

• Why regulate privatised industries
• Distinctive features of regulation
• Distinctive problems of regulation

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Widening range of regulatory agencies

• Reorganising traditional Inspectorates
• Reorganising self-regulation
• Regulating new social domains

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The new Regulatory State

• Forces creating the Regulatory State
• Achievements of the Regulatory State
• Problems of the Regulatory State