Political Advice (eBook, PDF)

Past, Present and Future

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Produktbeschreibung

The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the changing (and sometimes unchanging) nature of expertise; the ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion; and how that is controlled.

This volume of essays feeds into a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Moreover, the volume treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion with contributions from classics and literature as well as from history and politics. The unique practitioners' perspective to the problem of political advice is brought by the contributions of politicians, political advisers and senior civil servants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838604769
• Artikelnr.: 61090069

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Rose is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy (2011), which won the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society. Her recent research has been in the field of counsel and advice, and she was the editor of The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland 1286-1707, published by the British Academy in 2016. Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of five books including Subverting Scotland's Past (1993), Union and Unionisms (2008), and The World of Mr Casaubon (2016). He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the Guardian.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Political advising
Lord Butler 1. Political advice: Past, present
and future?
Colin Kidd and Jacqueline Rose 2. What would Perikles do, and why it still matters
asking the ancient Greek gods for political advice
Esther Eidinow 3. Obliquus ductus: Indirect political advice in the Renaissance
Joanne Paul 4. How not to do it: Poets and counsel, Thomas Wyatt to Geoffrey Hill
Colin Burrow 5. William Davison and the perils of advice in Elizabethan England
Jacqueline Rose 6. The parliamentary way of counsel
Paul Seaward 7. Smith as spad? Adam Smith and advice to politicians
Jesse Norman 8. A mirror for princes? British orientalists and the Persian Question
Ali M. Ansari 9. Reflections on the Central Policy Review Staff
William Waldegrave 10. Astrology and advice at the Reagan court
Colin Kidd 11. You've got to ask the right expert: Who gives political advice?
Marius S. Ostrowski 12. Advice in a time of belief: Civil service impartiality in two referendums
Jim Gallagher 13. Advising Trump
Rob Goodman 14. Managing the growing tension between politics and governance: Hard choices ahead for Whitehall and Westminster
Martin Donnelly