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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... core executive, the hollow state and the differentiated polity, all of which point to a more diverse view of state authority as being located at the boundary of state and civil society. We recognise that others have also sought to ...
... core executive, the hollow state and the differentiated polity, all of which point to a more diverse view of state authority as being located at the boundary of state and civil society. We recognise that others have also sought to ...
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... core executive', 'differentiated polity' and 'hollowed out executive' have become almost a private patois of political science, excluding outsiders, rather like the jargon of management reform in the civil service. The current ...
... core executive', 'differentiated polity' and 'hollowed out executive' have become almost a private patois of political science, excluding outsiders, rather like the jargon of management reform in the civil service. The current ...
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... core executive, so the Westminster model gains clarity when filled out with ideas such as the unitary state and cabinet government. No doubt people unfamiliar with a concept such as the hollowing-out of the state might need us to relate ...
... core executive, so the Westminster model gains clarity when filled out with ideas such as the unitary state and cabinet government. No doubt people unfamiliar with a concept such as the hollowing-out of the state might need us to relate ...
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... core executive, hollowing-out and the differentiated polity. We argue there have been significant shifts in the mix of governing structures in Britain, shifts we summarise as a movement from hierarchy to markets and then to networks ...
... core executive, hollowing-out and the differentiated polity. We argue there have been significant shifts in the mix of governing structures in Britain, shifts we summarise as a movement from hierarchy to markets and then to networks ...
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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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