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This article assesses the impact of the UK's Committee for Standards in Public Life (CSPL) in six key areas of political and public service: Minis terš and the Executive, Members of Parliament, the House of Lords, local government, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, and electoral reform. It will argue that the CSPL has had a demonstrable impact in terms of the number of recommendations that have been turned into legislation and also the number other standards and ethics agencies that have subsequently arisen within the UK. It will also suggest, however, that standards problems do remain, and that the CSPL 's impact on public perception of standards has been somewhat less positive. ; Straipsnyje nagrinėjama Jungtinės Karalystės Viešojo gyvenimo standartų komiteto veiklos įtaka šešiose pagrindinėse politikos ir viešosios tarnybos srityse dirbančiųjų tarnautojų (ministrų ir ministerijų tarnautojų, Parlamento narių, Lordų rūmų narių, vietos savivaldos, nevyriausybinių agentūrų ir rinkiminių komisijų tarnautojų) elgsenai. Parodyta, kad šito komiteto dauguma rekomendacijų padėjo rengti atitinkamus įstatymus bei sudarė prielaidas susikurti daugeliui kitų standartų ir etikos agentūrų, tačiau jo įtaka įtvirtinant valstybės tarnautojų etiško elgesio normas iki šiol vis dar yra mažesnė negu buvo tikėtasi.

AbstractOrganizations wax and wane, and some cease to exist altogether. The Standards Board for England was abolished after a 10‐year life. Created to regulate the ethical behavior of local politicians in England, the ethics of politics was undermined by the politics of ethics. This article analyzes the life of the Standards Board initially through the lens of a life‐cycle approach to organizations but finds that a problem‐cluster approach provides a sharper picture. Over its lifetime, the Standards Board faced a number of crises; its failure to resolve these crises and an unfavorable political climate led to its demise.

This article examines how, against a background of localism endorsed by the 2010 coalition government in the United Kingdom, a key component of local integrity and governance was fundamentally altered. The Localism Act 2011 abolished the English local integrity framework, which relied on the participation of local citizens in the policy making and implementation of local government standards of conduct. The article utilizes Henrik Bang's concepts of "expert citizen" and "everyday maker" to explore citizen participation in local standards committees. Using a case study approach, the article demonstrates how standards committees shaped processes and practices in the local governance of integrity. The authors argue that standards committees were crucial in promoting local participation and enhancing good governance.

This article, based on data collected from a year-long study, investigates the evaluation of a UK local government policy implementation and the use of evaluation data as an evidence-base for public policy (Bovaird & Loeffler, 2007; McCoy & Hargie, 2001; Schofield, 2004; Stern, 2008). Our case study highlights a number of issues. First, uncertainty and ambiguity of policy direction inhibiting the establishment of clear evaluation goals, which, second, results in frustration among stakeholders at a perceived disparity between what we term problem-inspired policy and problem-solving policy. Finally, this perception can be compounded by a lack of consideration for local variations of, for example, specific cultures, geographies or historical contexts. In responding to these problems our article argues that regardless of where policy control and decision-making occurs, the importance of the experiences of policy-implementers at a local level (where subject/geographical/cultural specialism and familiarisation exists) is crucial.