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Podcast – Carrera and Dunleavy discuss their new book ‘Growing the Productivity of Government Services’

A copy of Professor Patrick Dunleavy’s powerpoint presentation is available to download here: ‘Growing the Productivity of Government Services’ (pdf).

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Conventional wisdom and most national statistics have long treated the productivity of the government services sector as entirely flat. Only a tiny literature considers what actually happened to productivity at the organizational level. In this article, originally posted on the LSE’s British Politics and Policy blog, Patrick Dunleavy and Leandro Carrera draw on their pioneering book, arguing that we need to radically rethink our attitudes. We should begin adjusting to a public sector where intelligently implemented digital changes and services reorganizations can rapidly increase productivity over time.

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