Using existing documentation and some original survey and interviewing work, this paper explores the recent reforms in British central government. It attempts to measure them against the analytical perspective of NPM and the postbureau cratic reform paradigm and to discover how the impact of these reforms has transformed the accountability of public servants as a result of changes already imposed and those signalled by recent official documentation.
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