The End of Whitehall: Death of a Paradigm? / Edition 1

by Colin Campbell, Graham Wilson

Overview

In this new work, two leading political scientists reassess the shifting fortunes of the Whitehall model of governance - and find it wanting.
As we prepare to enter the twenty-first century, it has become clear that the model now has much less currency abroad as well as in the UK. The neo-liberal assaults of Thatcherism and the political drift of the Major years has meant that whereas, previously, 'Whitehall' symbolized a synergy between the political leadership and the permanent bureaucracy, it now evokes images of executive disarray and the subservience of career civil servants to the (often faddish) will of their political masters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557861405
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/06/1995
Series:	Comparative Politics
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 8.94(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Colin Campbell is University Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Washington.

Graham Wilson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface.

Preface.

1. The Force of the Whitehall Model in the World of Executive - Bureaucratic Politics.

2. Bureaucrats and Politicians in Britain: The Model Breaks.

3. Executive Leadership in the Age of Minimalism: A Comparative Perspective.

4. Leadership under Thatcher and Major and the Legacy of Neo-Liberalism.

5. The Decline of Coherence and Consistency as Political-Administrative Goals: A Comparative Perspective.

6. A Paragon Lost?.

7. Whither Accountability?.

8. The Post-Whitehall Era.

Bibliography.

Index.