Download or read book The Public Management and Modernisation in Britain written by Andrew Massey and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-06-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive work starts by charting the origins and evolution of the shift from public administration to public management and moves on to assess the main theories and debates about its character, benefits and problems. After consideration of the party political issues, debates, continuities, and discontinuities between the approaches of Thatcher, Major and Blair, the core of the book discusses change in public sector organization more broadly.