This paper sets out the recent history and evolution of the UK governments' performance measurement, monitoring and management systems from the period since 1997 and the election of the New Labor government, until today. Although, as the paper shows many of the changes the New Labor government...

A central feature of New Public Management (NPM) was the disaggregation of organizations into smaller units. This article examines the ebbs and flows of organizational size in the UK public sector - from the rise of the small is beautiful idea in the 1980s and 1990s to the current new big...

The UK's Next Steps programme has now been running for 15 years. It has been copied internationally, but has never been evaluated officially. This article looks at whether Next Steps has achieved its immediate goals of structural and institutional change, and whether these have led to...

<title/> A central feature of New Public Management (NPM) was the disaggregation of organizations into smaller units. This article examines the ebbs and flows of organizational size in the UK public sector—from the rise of the ‘small is beautiful’ idea in the 1980s and 1990s to the current ‘new...