What grows when government grows? Why? What are the consequences for effectiveness and consent? Richard Rose answers these questions clearly and succinctly. The programme approach relates what government is, a set of organizations, to what these institutions do, namely, mobilize laws, money and employees to produce public programmes. The programmes are concerned with such varied things as education, health, pensions, economic development, law and order and national defence.There is a wealth of ideas and data about which governments are biggest, comparing America, Britain, Continental European and Scandinavian countries; when governments grow, comparing the affluent 1960s with the difficult 1970s and the uncertain 1980s; and why some government programmes grow much more than others.
- ISBN10 0803997795
- ISBN13 9780803997790
- Publish Date 20 January 1984 (first published 12 January 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 259
- Language English