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THE THATCHER GOVERNMENT, THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE, AND THE ‘NEW CML SERVICE’
Author(s) -
FRY GEOFFREY K.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1988.tb00678.x
Subject(s) - civil service , civil servant , promotion (chess) , government (linguistics) , public administration , service (business) , civil servants , order (exchange) , state (computer science) , political science , business , finance , management , economics , economy , law , public service , politics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
The Thatcher era has been a traumatic one for the career Civil Service, so much so that one leading civil servant has suggested that the order of change is such that a ‘new Civil Service’ is emerging. This paper examines, first, interpretations of what has happened to the Civil Service under the Thatcher government; next, it reviews the developments relating to the economy programme and the Financial Management Initiative; then it considers the current state of the Civil Service pay and promotion system; finally, it concludes that thus far at least, essentially, the ‘old Civil Service’ has survived.