A government that worked better and cost less evaluating three decades of reform and change in uk central government is a book written by christopher hood and ruth dixon and published by oxford university press in 2015 the authors attempt to assess the success of three decades of new public management which was intended to create a government . Uk central government is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration over the past few decades a poster child of new public management successive reforms were accompanied by lofty claims that the changes would transform the way government worked government would become more efficient delivering services more economically for example by . The uk is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms however there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened . The uk is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms however there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened . A government that worked better and cost less evaluating three decades of reform and change in uk central government christopher hood and ruth dixon a major new work from one of the worlds leading scholars in public administration an unprecedented examination of the efficiency of uk government across more than 30 years