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"The book surveys the evolution of public management, assesses the core theories and approaches and goes on to examine all aspects of public management in the UK today, including strategic management, performance management, financial management, and human resources management."--Publisher's website

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and international readers. It deals not only with the technical aspects of transport, logistics and supply chain management, but also the interactions between transport professionals and the public authorities in the modern social, political, economic and environmental context. The transport of freight is presented as a system, mixing empirics and theory, showing how transport itself functions and also its strong influence on the modern economy, with a growing volume of production, turnover and employment. The nature of freight transport, an industrial process widely marketed as a service, is analysed in depth, explaining the main characteristics of the transport operation, its market and the regulatory context. The main actors, the professional actors (carriers, shippers and other agents) and the public authorities are introduced, and their behaviour and interactions are clarified. This comprehensive approach allows the reader to go further and consider in particular the approaches and practices of transport by carriers, customers, logistics managers, political decision makers and citizens, to tackle long range issues such as the 'decoupling' of production and transport recommended by some institutions and experts, and to explore the need for more infrastructure, or the capacity of the freight transport industry to reduce its contribution to pollution and climate change. This book treats freight transport as a whole system in its technical, economic, social, political and environmental context, in contrast to existing transport literature focused on individual aspects, such as transportation planning (usually for cars or passengers), logistics (essentially management issues), or individual transport modes. This book is comprehensive in its treatment of freight transport and in its use of multiple disciplinary perspectives. June Burnham is a researcher and consultant at June Burnham & Associates, and was formerly Senior Lecturer in European Government at Middlesex University and a research officer at the London School of Economics. Michel Savy is Professor of Transport and Logistics at the University of Paris Est Créteil and the École Nationale des Ponts ParisTech. He is Director of the Observatory of Transport Policies and Strategies in Europe (Paris) and Co-Director of the Sino-French Centre for Urban and Regional Planning Studies (Nanjing and Paris). Publisher's note.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: Mapping the Territory -- Key historical themes -- Scope and size -- Some comparative reflections -- The book -- 1 Perspectives on 'Decline' and 'Modernisation' -- The Whitehall model and theories of decline -- Network theory, governance, hollowing-out and the differentiated polity: further visions of civil service decline? -- Modernisation rather than decline? -- Conclusion -- 2 Policy Issues -- Perspectives on policy and civil service power -- Squaring the circle? constitutional rules on impartiality -- Four risks of politicisation -- The impact of special advisers -- Conclusion -- 3 Multilevel Mandarins and Complex Structures -- From the unitary state to multilevel governance -- The impact of devolution -- The European and international dimension -- Conclusion: a network of civil services? -- 4 Restructuring for Efficiency, Control and Delivery -- Restructuring for economy and efficiency in government -- Restructuring for ministerial control of policy and delivery -- Customer service and privatisation in the Major government -- New Labour: coordination and consolidation -- Restructuring for efficiency and service delivery -- Conclusion -- 5 Accountability, Freedom of Information and Open Government -- Beyond the Whitehall model -- Modernising ministerial responsibility -- A culture of official secrecy -- Expanding civil service accountability -- Managing openness: freedom of information and the civil service -- Conclusion -- 6 The Human and Managerial Dimension -- Recruitment of civil servants -- Qualifications, training and experience -- New people management -- The civil service as a model employer -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: The Modernised Civil Service -- Three views on the evolution of the British civil service.