Interpreting British GovernanceRoutledge, 2003 M09 2 - 240 pages How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain? This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open way of speaking about British government. |
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... centralised wartime state than any of her more metaphysical-minded, state-exalting continental enemies' (ibid.: 91). It also fuelled a reformist mood, which led to a 'profound break with some of the major conventions of the previous ...
... centralised wartime state than any of her more metaphysical-minded, state-exalting continental enemies' (ibid.: 91). It also fuelled a reformist mood, which led to a 'profound break with some of the major conventions of the previous ...
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... centralisation. Thus, the history of British government during the twentieth century appears as a shifting balance between government and governance: There was a rolling back of the state in the inter-war period; and between 1957 and ...
... centralisation. Thus, the history of British government during the twentieth century appears as a shifting balance between government and governance: There was a rolling back of the state in the inter-war period; and between 1957 and ...
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Contents
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The public sector on traditions and dilemmas
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The civil service on history and ethnography
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Bibliography | 202 |
Index | 227 |
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