The growing recognition that social problems are multi-faceted and need to be tackled in a way which cut-across traditional departmental boundaries has heralded the advent of joined-up government. Yet this new emphasis ...
Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul(Public Money and Management: Debate Piece, 2010)
Northern Ireland should not have received an invitation to the ‘10 years of devolution’ celebration party! Power was devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly and its Executive Committee of Ministers on Thursday 2nd December ...
Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul(Journal of Social Policy, 2004)
The devolved government in Northern Ireland set about the task of putting in place ‘a modern and effective system of public administration that can deliver high quality public services to our citizens’. It did so through ...
Borooah, Vani; Knox, Colin(Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 2014)
Northern Ireland's schools system is undergoing a radical review. The first stage in this process is to reform the post-primary sector in response to the Education Minister's call to 'put pupils first' and raise the overall ...
Knox, Colin; Yessimova, Sholpan(Journal of Civil Society, 2015)
Kazakhstan has provided the economic exemplar for other Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) countries since its independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has been classified by the World Bank ...
Borooah, Vani; Knox, Colin(International Journal of Education Development, 2015)
Some 16 years after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland is most clearly evident in the delivery of key public services. The focus of this paper is the highly segregated and ...
Knox, Colin(International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2008)
Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. Since then it has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation under the leadership of President ...