The Labour Party and Whitehall Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement Series
Auteur : Theakston Kevin
First published in 1992. In this lively and controversial book, Kevin Theakston examines the Yes, Minister-style argument popularised by Tony Benn and Richard Crossman that the civil service obstructs Labour government policies. He argues that in fact the Labour party?s problems and failures in office are largely political in origin.
The book surveys the development of socialist thinking about Whitehall, and examines the claim of a Labour MP in 1979 that ?It is as if Labour in office has now lost all stomach for administrative reform.? 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?.
This book will appeal to researchers and students of British politics, public administration, and history, as well as to all those with an interest in Whitehall reform, or in Labour Party politics.
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
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.
Date de parution : 05-2020
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Mots-clés :
Young Men; Hum Drum; Civil Service; IAC; Labor Movement; Labor Party; EEC Membership; Political History; Civil Service Power; Socialism; Fulton Committee; Labour government policies; Government Study Group; civil service recruitment; RAF Pilot; politicization; Labour Leader; socialist thinking; Public Administration; Whitehall management; TUC Labour Party Liaison Committee; Civil Service Unions; Fulton Report; Lord Crowther Hunt; Civil Service Reform; Whitehall Machine; Method II; FoI Act; Official Secrets Act; Labour’s Policy Review; Liverpool West Derby; Higher Civil Service; Norman Hunt