The civil service in Britain today

Author(s)

• Pilkington, Colin

Bibliographic Information

The civil service in Britain today

Colin Pilkington

（Politics today）

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hard ISBN 9780719052231

Description

An up-to-date look at the British Home Civil Service. The book considers the Service at the end of a period of reform which began in the 1980s, asking questions concerning the degree of politicization within it during the Next Steps and other reform programmes.

Table of Contents

• The origins of the civil service
• reforms and criticism
• the civil service after Fulton
• the political culture of the civil service
• the managerial revolution
• the Ibbs' Report
• towards a "new" civil service
• secrecy and accountability
• formulating policy and making decisions
• the civil service beyond Whitehall.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780719052248

Description

Loud and proud is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League (EDL). Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right, the author draws on interviews, informal conversations and extensive observation at EDL events to explore and explain the gap between the public image of the movement as a violent Islamophobic and racist organisation and individual activists' understanding of it as 'one big family'. Presenting them neither as duped by a charismatic leader nor working class anti-heroes, this book introduces EDL activists as individuals with real lives whose diverse trajectories in and out of activism are embedded in personal life stories. The book will be of value to those researching or studying in the disciplines of sociology, political science and anthropology as well as those with an interest in contemporary political issues and the populist and radical right. -- .

Table of Contents

• The origins of the civil service
• reforms and criticism
• the civil service after Fulton
• the political culture of the civil service
• the managerial revolution
• the Ibbs' Report
• towards a "new" civil service
• secrecy and accountability
• formulating policy and making decisions
• the civil service beyond Whitehall.

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Details

• NCID: BA45530317
• ISBN:
  • 0719052238
  • 0719052246
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Manchester,New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 183 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 352.630941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Civil service -- Great Britain -- History
  • LCSH : Civil service -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA05145398