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Book contents
- Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Author Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
- 2 Consultancy in the UK Government: Modernizing Privatism
- 3 Policy Consulting in the USA: Significant but in Decline?
- 4 Entrenched and Escalating: Policy-Relevant Consulting and Contracting in Australia, 1987–2017
- 5 From Corporatist to Contractor State? Policy Consulting in the Netherlands
- 6 Policy Consultants for Substance and Process: A Review of the Supply and Demand for Canadian Policy Consulting
- 7 Swedish Government Agencies’ Hiring of Policy Consultants: A Phenomenon of Increased Magnitude and Importance?
- 8 Conclusion: Policy Consulting in Comparative Perspective
- Book part
- References
- Index
3 - Policy Consulting in the USA: Significant but in Decline?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2019
- Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Author Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
- 2 Consultancy in the UK Government: Modernizing Privatism
- 3 Policy Consulting in the USA: Significant but in Decline?
- 4 Entrenched and Escalating: Policy-Relevant Consulting and Contracting in Australia, 1987–2017
- 5 From Corporatist to Contractor State? Policy Consulting in the Netherlands
- 6 Policy Consultants for Substance and Process: A Review of the Supply and Demand for Canadian Policy Consulting
- 7 Swedish Government Agencies’ Hiring of Policy Consultants: A Phenomenon of Increased Magnitude and Importance?
- 8 Conclusion: Policy Consulting in Comparative Perspective
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
As the Introduction to this book has argued, governmental use of consultancy services has long been a concern for scholars of public administration, management and political science (Howlett and Migone 2013a, 2013b; Kipping and Engwall 2003; Graeme and Bowman 2006; Guttman and Willner 1976; Rosenblum and McGillis 197).Although the impact of policy consulting is generally expected to be fairly broad, most of these studies have focused on a narrow set of questions related to the effect of contracting out on levels of public service employment and budgets (Dilulio 2016; Guttman and Willner 1976; GAO 2011) rather than on policy outcomes. Much existing research has focused either on placing this expansion in a historical perspective (McKenna 1995, 1996, 2006), or assessing its underlying causes and consequences (David 2012; Berit and Kieser 2002; McGann 2007).
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- Policy Consultancy in Comparative PerspectivePatterns, Nuances and Implications of the Contractor State, pp. 52 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019