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Coordination is a perennial problem for public services — most especially the human and social services. British policy towards community care and de-hospitalisation is examined as a case study of governmental attempts to improve inter-organisation relations. Three questions are addressed: do the theoretical approaches within the public policy literatures offer policy makers a coherent guide to action; have successive government policies been influenced by these theoretical approaches; has British empirical research on joint planning offered additional insights of help to policy makers? The need to link theories of trust — and the micro dynamics of inter-organisational relations — to the public policy tradition is emphasized, as is the need for a reflexive governmental concern for problems of implementation and governance.

THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES HOW THE NATURE OF CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATIVE RADICALISM HAS FORCED THE OPPOSITION PARTIES INTO THE ROLE OF DEFENDING A BROAD UNDERSTANDING OF THE STATE'S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. TWO PROBLEMS ARE EXAMINED: ARE LABOR AND THE ALLIANCE PARTIES IN BRITAIN LIKELY TO PRESENT CONGRUENT SOCIAL POLICIES TO THE ELECTORATE, AND WOULD THERE BE ANY POSSIBILITY OF AGREEMENT ON A COMMON PROGRAMME OF ACTION AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION.

POLICY MAKING IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF POWER AND RATIONALITY BY Brian Smith. COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY: THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CHOICE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA by Arnold Heidenheimer

The reordering of Europe -- Historical chronology of key events -- Thematic chronologies -- The nation states -- Special topics -- People -- Glossary of specialist terms -- Historiography

This article explores the contention that the conventions of public expenditure accounting conceal, rather than reveal, the real nature and implications of resource trends. A benchmark — a constant level of service output — is established as a basis for examining the relationship between trends in expenditure inputs and service outputs. Changes in unit costs are identified as the major source of deviation between expenditure and output trends. The impact of resource constraint on policy and policy‐implementation is then examined in relation to one, essentially stable, area of policy in the personal social services: community care.The meaning of the term'policy' is far from straightforward and community care is best understood as the interaction of relatively independent streams of policy, towards service outputs and resource inputs, extant in both central and local government. Mechanisms by which policy streams could be reconciled are of particular interest and an innovative example — joint finance — is examined in some detail.