The End of Whitehall

The End of Whitehall
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368
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9781557861405
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Книги издательства Willey

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In this new work, two leading political scientists reassess the shifting fortunes of the Whitehall model of governance– and find it wanting. The United Kingdom?s Whitehall model commanded great respect in the postwar years. The United States had regard for the Whitehall model due to its relative efficiency in introducing and implementing modern social and industrial policies. In the cases of advanced Commonwealthcountries – Canada, Australia and New Zealand – the high regard for the Whitehall model derived from the view that bureaucratic development depended upon replicating how things were done in Britain. As we 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...

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