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Whitehall’s Elite of the Elite - David Richards: The Civil Service under the Conservatives 1979–1997, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 1997, 288 pp., £14.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1997

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References

1 Patricia Greer, Transforming Central Government, Buckingham, Open University Press; Campbell, Colin and Wilson, Graham K., The End of Whitehall, Oxford, Blackwell, 1995 Google Scholar; Dowding, Keith, The Civil Service, London, Routledge, 1995 Google Scholar; Pyper, Richard, The British Civil Service, Hemel Hempstead, Harvester, 1995 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Theakston, Kevin, The Civil service since 1945, Oxford, Blackwell, 1995.Google Scholar

2 These are public sector agencies which have been hived off from the core departments to implement policies. Each signs a ‘framework agreement’ which sets targets for policy implementation with their ‘parent’ departments, but management exists as a separate entity.

3 Thus about similar issues to the better titled Plowden, W., Ministers and Mandarins, London, Institute for Public Policy Research, 1994 Google Scholar; and Barberis, Peter, The Elite of the Elite, Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1996.Google ScholarPubMed

4 Plowden, Ministers and Mandarins.

5 Butler, David, Adonis, Andrew and Travers, Tony, Failure in British Government, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.Google Scholar