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The majority of the governing and administering of Britain occurs away from the confines of Whitehall and Westminster in a large number of non-central government organisations that can be found throughout Britain. These organisations, as with the rest of the political-administrative machinery of the state, have undergone a number of distinct transformations over the past fourteen years. The extent to which these changes constitute a real revolution, and the implications of them for the management and administration of the services that the people of Britain receive, are important issues not only in their own right but also in terms of the possible shape and direction that these parts of the governmental machinery will assume in the future.
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Gray, C. (1995). The Other Governments of Britain. In: Pyper, R., Robins, L. (eds) Governing the UK in the 1990s. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23899-6_12
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