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Colin Talbot (2010) Theories of Performance - Organisational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain, Oxford University Press.

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The Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review (edited with Matt Baker)(2007)

The Paradoxical Primate (2005)

Agencies: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-autonomous Organizations (with Christopher Pollitt et al) (2004)

Unbundled Government (edited with Christopher Pollitt)(2003)

So who needs agencies?: A handbook exploring the issues of using ‘agencies’ as a reform device in central governments (2002)

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