Kevin Theakston

The Labour Party and Whitehall

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992. The book surveys the development of socialist thinking about Whitehall. Theakston looks at the effectiveness of Labour's various reform schemes, raising important issues such as politicisation and power in the civil service, Whitehall management, elitism in civil service recruitment, and secrecy and 'open government'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138325838
• ISBN-10: 113832583X
• Artikelnr.: 69949045

Autorenporträt

Kevin Theakston is a specialist in British government and politics. He has a long-standing interest in Whitehall, the civil service and government ministers, and haz written several books on those subjects.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface; Preface; 1. Introduction 2. Labour Governments
and the Mandarins 3. The Attlee Government and the Reform of the Civil
Service 4. Labour and the Fulton Report 5. Efficiency or Democracy? Labour
and Civil Service Recruitment 6. Labour, Parliamentary Accountability and
Open Government 7. Labour, Thatcher and the Future of the Civil Service;
Notes; Index