Alan Lawton
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Public Money & Management | 1996
David McKevitt; Alan Lawton
Failure to address implementation issues is a key reason for the failure of organizational strategy. Drawing upon research in a wide range of public service organizations, this article argues that top‐down implementation of performance measurement systems has led to middle‐manager disenchantment and does not meet user needs.
Public Money & Management | 2000
Alan Lawton; David McKevitt; Michelle Millar
This article reports the results of a study of the implementation of performance measurement in 74 UK public sector organizations. Performance measurement is often imposed on organizations by external stakeholders and those charged with implementation have to reconcile the demands of competing interests. These interests reflect the complex relations that ‘street-level’ public organizations engage in. The authors use institutional theory to make sense of how these relations, and the competing demands of performance measurement, are managed.
Local Government Studies | 2004
Alan Lawton; Michael Macaulay
This article discusses the current state of the ethical framework for local government, which developed under the broader Modernisation Agenda of the Local Government Act 2000. It argues that the local government framework stands at a crossroads between the high road and the low road of ethics. Whereas the low road leads down the path of compliance and quantifiable performance measures, the high road is far more ambitious and leads to a culture of ethical governance. Recent developments - such as upcoming Section 66 regulations and the expansion of the role of the monitoring officer - have highlighted the choice between these two paths. This article will analyse the scope of unethical activity in local government, primarily in England, and map the regulatory terrain of the local government ethical framework. It identifies precursors to the framework and examines the way in which the Local Government Act 2000 built upon, and deviated from, the recommendations of the third report of the Committee for Standards in Public Life. Finally it discusses what has happened since the LGA 2000 Act was implemented, and assesses whether the framework is now poised to go down the high road of ethical culture or low road of compliance.
Public Money & Management | 2000
Alan Lawton; David McKevitt; Michelle Millar
Archive | 1994
David McKevitt; Alan Lawton
Local Government Studies | 1995
Alan Lawton; David McKevitt
Parliamentary Affairs | 2006
Michael Macaulay; Alan Lawton
Local Government Studies | 1992
Paul Griffiths; Alan Lawton
Archive | 2015
Alan Lawton; Michael Macaulay
Archive | 1996
Alan Lawton; David McKevitt