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ECONOMIC POLICY-MAKING 'Public choice models of bureaucracy are theoretically flawed and empirically inaccurate, yet public choice "solutions" seem to work.' Discuss in the light of recent changes in the British public sector. "Not only does a bureaucracy...tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity...A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind..." (Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867) page 197). "In the past, Governments have progressively increased the number of tasks that the Civil Service is asked to do without paying sufficient attention to the need for economy and efficiency...The present Government are committed both to a reduction in tasks and to better management." (Margaret Thatcher (statement in the House of Commons 13 May 1980), quoted in Dunsire and Hood, Cutback Management in Public Bureaucracies (1989) page 18). Walter Bagehot, writing as he did at a time when the...

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