Using Case Studies to teach Public Policy: a practical example

Newbigging E. , The British Crown Agents (A) and (B), (case studies available from the Case Clearing House of Great Britain and Ireland, Cranfield UK or Intercollegiate Case Clearing House, Boston USA, 1980. Single case (abridged) version and teaching note also available).

Report on Non-Departmental Public Bodies, (Pliatzky Report), (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office Cmnd 7797, 1980).

Report by the Committee of Inquiry, appointed by the Minister of Overseas Development into the circumstances which led to the Crown Agents requesting assistance from the Government in 1974, House of Commons return of 1 December 1977, (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office).

Katz D. Khan R.L. The Social Psychology of Organisations, (New York, Wiley 1978).

Crozier M. , The Bureaucratic Phenomenon, (London Tavistock 1964); Hayward J. , The One and Indivisible French Republic, (London Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1973); Ridley R. Blondel J. , Public Administration in France, (London Routledge and Kegan Paul 1969).

Heclo H. Wildavsky A. , The Private Government of Public Money, (London Macmillan 1974).

Handy C.B. , Understanding Organisations, (Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1976).

Lammers C.J. Hickson D.J. , Organisations Alike and Unalike, (London Routledge and Kegan Paul 1976), pp.97–119.

Report by the Advisory Committee on the Crown Agents, (The Stevenson Committee) 24 March 1974, House of Commons return of 1 December 1977, (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office).

Future of Crown Agents, (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office Cmnd 6445, 1976).

Eliz II . Cap 43 Crown Agents Act 1979, (London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office).

Bennis W.G. , The Leaning Ivory Tower, (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1973).

Chapman L. , Your Disobedient Civil Servant, (London Chatto and Windus 1978), (available also as a Penquin paperback).

Wouk H. , The Caine Mutiny, (Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1950).

Sunday Times 19 April 1970, ‘Crown Agents: Who Carries The Final Buck?’, Raw Charles .

Smith B.L.R. Hague D.C. (eds), The Dilemma of Accountability in Modern Government, (London Macmillan 1971).

Common Cause State Issue Development, Sunset Legislation, (Washington DC USA 1976).

The Civil Service Report of the Committee 1966–68, (Cmnd 3638 June 1968).

Moore C. Newbigging E. , In Search of The Quango, (Journal of General Management, Summer 1981).