Colin Talbot
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British political scientist
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Colin Talbot's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of Manchester
- Masters Political Science University of Manchester
- Bachelors Politics University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Colin Ronald Talbot is a British political scientist. He was until August 2017 a professor at the University of Manchester and held the Chair of Government in the School of Social Sciences. He is now Professor Emeritus at Manchester and a research associate at the University of Cambridge. He has also been an adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees on HM Treasury and on Public Administration.
Colin Talbot's Published Works
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Published Works
- Agencies: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-Autonomous Organizations (2004) (417)
- Unbundled Government:A critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos & contractualisation (2003) (385)
- Agency Fever? Analysis of an International Policy Fashion (2001) (108)
- Public Value—The Next “Big Thing” in Public Management? (2009) (85)
- Paradoxes and prospects of ‘public value’ (2011) (80)
- Theories of Performance: Organizational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain (2010) (79)
- Executive Agencies: Have They Improved Management in Government? (2004) (77)
- Public Performance - towards a new model? (1999) (71)
- Seasonal Cycles in Public Management: Disaggregation and Re-aggregation (2007) (63)
- Performance Regimes—The Institutional Context of Performance Policies (2008) (53)
- UK public services and management (1979‐2000) Evolution or revolution? (2001) (51)
- The public value of the National Audit Office (2010) (50)
- Modernising Government: The Way Forward—a comment (2006) (43)
- Performing ‘Performance’—A Comedy in Five Acts (2000) (41)
- The UK Parliament and performance (2007) (38)
- Strategy and strategists in UK local government (1996) (30)
- The World Bank ’ s Approach to Public Sector Management 2011-2020 : “ Better Results from Public Sector Institutions (2011) (29)
- Organising and Disorganising–A Dynamic and Non-Linear Theory of Institutional Emergence and Its Implications by Michael Thompson (2009) (28)
- Sir Humphrey and the professors: what does Whitehall want from academics? (2014) (24)
- Performance in government : the evolving system of performance and evaluation measurement, monitoring, and management in the United Kingdom (2010) (20)
- Paradoxes of Management Development--Trends and Tensions. (1997) (19)
- Bridging the academic–policy-making gap: practice and policy issues (2015) (19)
- The benefits of welfare rights advice: a review of the literature (2006) (16)
- Evaluation and Validation: A Mixed Approach (1992) (16)
- UK Civil Service Personnel Reform: Devolution, Decentralisation and Delusion (1997) (15)
- Virtual reality modelling language (VRML) in chemistry (2005) (15)
- Adapting the agency concept: Variations within the 'Next Steps (2003) (14)
- The Paradoxical Primate (2005) (12)
- Reinventing public management : a survey of public sector managers' reactions to change (1994) (11)
- Twin Peaks? MBAs and the Competence Movement - a Tale of Two Courses (1993) (11)
- Strategic Change Management and Training: Adaptive, Adoptive and Innovative Roles (1993) (11)
- The prison service: A framework of irresponsibility? (1996) (10)
- Measuring Performance of Government Departments - international developments (2001) (9)
- Viewpoint: Output and Performance Analysis—Time to Open up the Debate? (1998) (9)
- Consilience and Performance in the ‘Art of the State’ (2005) (9)
- How the Public Sector Got its Contradictions - The Tale of the Paradoxical Primate. In- tegrating the Idea of Paradox in Human Social, Political and Organisational Systems with Evolutionary Psychology. (2003) (9)
- Local Government Strategies in an Age of Austerity (2011) (8)
- UK Parliamentary Scrutiny of Public Service Agreements: A Challenge Too Far? (2008) (7)
- Budget Setting and Financial Scrutiny: experiences in devolved/regional governments - 'open, accessible and accountable to the people of Scotland' [report for the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee (2003) (6)
- Usable Knowledge: Discipline-Oriented Versus Problem-Oriented Social Science in Public Policy (2018) (6)
- Towards School Based Teacher Training (1991) (6)
- The structure solution? Public sector mergers in the United Kingdom (2013) (4)
- A northern powerhouse, or an unwelcome imposition? experts respond to George Osborne’s Greater Manchester Mayor proposals (2014) (4)
- Job Centre Plus customer service performance and delivery: A qualitative review (2005) (3)
- Performance regimes and institutional contexts: Comparing Japan, UK and USA (2006) (3)
- Central Government Reform and Leadership (2010) (3)
- Performance in Government (2010) (3)
- Take-up of Entitlements and Pensioner Poverty: A Review of the Literature (2006) (3)
- Debate: ‘Can't govern’, ‘won't govern’—the strange confluence of governance and neoliberalism (2016) (3)
- Developing Public Managers in the UK (1993) (2)
- Developing strategic managers for UK public services---a competing values and competences approach. (1995) (2)
- UK Parliamentary Scrutiny of PSAs: a challenge too far? (2008) (1)
- The British Administrative Elite. The Art of Change without Changing (2014) (1)
- Realism in Public Services Reform - the case of the Irish Republic (2009) (1)
- Paradoxes of Public Management Reform: The UK Experience (2003) (1)
- The benefits of welfare rights advice (2006) (1)
- Conclusions: A Puzzle, Three Pieces, Many Theories and a Problem (2010) (1)
- The Geographical Distribution of Civil Servants: The Politics of Change (1997) (1)
- Pennies, peformance and politics (2002) (1)
- Targets? More targets! Even less change and more continuity in the performance regime in Whitehall (2015) (1)
- When the talking stops: An exercise in liaison (1990) (1)
- The effects of virtual manipulatives in online learning environments (2016) (1)
- Developing a Typology of Public Sector Mergers (in review) (2012) (0)
- Supply side deficiencies in our parties, parliament, and local government each contribute to our democratic malaise (2015) (0)
- Modern Agencies — The Ideal Type (2005) (0)
- Mind the Gap: Bridging the Gender Divide (2007) (0)
- Mandarin Tinted Glasses (2009) (0)
- Standards for Public Performance Reporting (2012) (0)
- When constabulary duty's to be done (1993) (0)
- It’s not just the economy, stupid – the UK is undergoing multiple, overlapping, institutional crises (2013) (0)
- Influence of riparian zones on stream nutrients in Great Lakes watershed flood plains (2010) (0)
- Conference Report: Effective and Efficient Public Management in the New Europe (1992) (0)
- Agencies: The Context (2005) (0)
- Essential scrutiny or a national embarrassment? Experts respond to the Hansard Society’s report on Prime Minister’s Questions (2014) (0)
- Finance. Go on Darling, open up those vaults of secrecy. (2007) (0)
- Dissolving the Civil Service (1994) (0)
- Sodar and Lidar Observations and Modelling of the Pollutants Dynamics in a Strongly Industrialized Coastal Area during a Sea-Breeze Event (2007) (0)
- Nested mesoscale-LES WRF simulations: validation and application to diurnal cycles over heterogeneous land surfaces (2010) (0)
- Debate: The changing ecology of social knowledge and public policy-making (2017) (0)
- Children?s Services: The Impact of Service Integration in England (2013) (0)
- The Invisible Hand's Shadow (2001) (0)
- International Conference at 21th Annual Convention Evolution of New Public Management in Local Government : With the Aim of the Breakthrough in the Performance (2005) (0)
- No longer welcome: the EU academics in Britain told to “make arrangements to leave” (2017) (0)
- Universal Credit Crunch: “It’s the implementation, stupid.” (2013) (0)
- ‘GOD’s’ coming replacement with a civil service ‘Trinity’ is a further sign that policy making is becoming even more divorced from its implementation (2011) (0)
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