Reducing the size of the civil service by a fifth at a time of myriad pressures hardly seems designed to achieve the government’s goals in a post-Brexit future

Diamond, Patrick (2022) Reducing the size of the civil service by a fifth at a time of myriad pressures hardly seems designed to achieve the government’s goals in a post-Brexit future. British Politics and Policy at LSE (18 May 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

While bureaucratic headcount is a crude measure of government capability, Patrick Diamond explains the reasons why the recent proposal to cut 91,000 civil service jobs is particularly problematic.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2022 13:36
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 14:20
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116322

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