| Summary: | Data and sources for the graphs in A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government by Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon, 2015, Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-19-968702-2).
Quantitative data assembled by the authors from official (governmental) primary sources are given in full in the Excel spreadsheets (one for each Chapter), and secondary sources are cited. The primary sources should be consulted if further analysis of these data is planned, as revisions and reclassifications of official data take place frequently. The data in the spreadsheets correspond to the numbers used in Hood and Dixon 2015. In their book 'A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less' Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon evaluated the performance of UK government over the past 30 years, a period during which the managerialist reforms known collectively as 'New Public Management' were expected (by proponents of the reforms) to raise the quality and lower the costs of government.. To assess whether this was the case, Hood and Dixon assembled a wealth of quantitative data from official government sources. The archived spreadsheets contain the data on which the graphs in their book were based.
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