Whitehall - Softcover
An expert journalist's look inside the powerful, efficient, and intractable British Civil Service describes its evolution current structure, and notable personalities
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A mix of history, guidebook and portrait gallery, Hennessy's chatty survey of the British civil service is recommended for those who want to understand that country's "permanent government." This Cook's tour of Whitehall begins with the departments (foreign office, defence, trade, energy, agriculture et al.), then introduces representatives of the three major categories of players: ministers, career officials and the distinguished auxiliaries known as "the good and the great," who undertake periodic service on royal commissions and committees of inquiry. Describing reform under Margaret Thatcher as "de-privileging the profession and re-skilling its professionals in a firmly managerial direction," the author, a British journalist, believes that no prime minister since Lloyd George has had a more profound effect on civil service management, but also argues that reform hasn't gone far enough. He advocates a broadened recruitment policy and a redesigned Civil Service Commission to combine policy-making and managerial aspects of Whitehall's mandate. Photos.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherFontana Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0006530575
- ISBN 13 9780006530572
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages960
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