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The European Administrative Elite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Maurice Wright
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Government and Opposition , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1976 , pp. 106 - 117
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1976

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References

1 For a recent survey see Stanworth, P. and Giddens, A., Elites and Power in British Society, London, 1974 Google Scholar.

2 Even R. K. Kelsall’s brief but welcome paper in Stanworth and Giddens, op. at., comparing recent data with that used in his 1955 study (Higher Civil Servants in Britain) does not deal with the trends which have begun to emerge in the last five years. Pickering and Dodd’s two articles, ‘Recruitment to the Administrative Class 1960–64’, Public Administration, Vol. 45, Spring and Summer, 1967, are now mainly of historical interest, as is much of the Social Survey commissioned by the Fulton Committee of Inquiry into the Civil Service, Report Vol. 3 (1), 1969, London, HMSO.

3 See for example, Wilson, H., The Labour Government 1964–70, London, 1971 Google Scholar, Grossman, R. H. S., Inside View, London, 1972 Google Scholar, Williams, Marcia, Inside No. 10, London, 1972.Google Scholar

4 See L. A. Gunn, ‘Politicians or Officials—Who is Answerable?’, Political Quarterly, July–September 1972; R. A. Chapman, ‘The Vehicle and General Affair: Some Reflections for Public Administration in Britain’, Public Administration, Vol. 51, Autumn 1973; and Maurice Wright, ‘The Professional Conduct of Civil Servants’, Public Administration, Vol. 51, Spring 1973.

5 Memorandum submitted by the Association of First Division Civil Servants, September 1966, to the Fulton Committee of Inquiry into the Civil Service, Report, Vol. 5 (1).

6 Ezra N. Suleiman, Politics, Power and Bureaucracy in France, Princeton University Press, 1974.

7 Jochanan Manor, ‘The Reform of the École Nationale D’Administration in Paris’, Public Administration in Israel and Abroad, Vol. 11, 1971. See also the report of the Bloch‐Lainé Commission: Rapport de la commission des problèmes de I’Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris, 1968.

8 Jacques Mandrin, L’Énarchie ou les mandarins de la société bourgeoise, La Table Ronde du Combat, Paris, 1967.

9 Suleiman, op. cit., pp. 89–94.

10 Ardagh, John, ‘The French Corps d’Elite’, New Society, 20 03 1975 Google Scholar.

11 The Method 11 System of Selection, Report of the Committee of Inquiry, September 1969, London, HMSO.

12 Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, Vol. 3 (1), Surveys and Investigations: Social Survey of the Civil Service, 1969, London, HMSO.

13 The ‘Heaton/Williams Report’. For a brief account see The Times, 17 March 1975.