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Bureaucrats and Leadership

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Informationen zum Autor JANE BURNHAM Senior Lecturer in European Government, Middlesex University and Research Assistant, London School of Economics GEOFFREY K.FRY Professor of British Government and Administration, University of Leeds STEVEN HARRISON Reader in Health Policy and Politics, University of Leeds KESTER ISAAC-HENRY Principal Lecturer, Department of Public Policy, University of Central England, Birmingham GEORGE W. JONES Professor of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science CHRISTOPHER LORD Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Leeds ELIZABETH MELLON Teaching Fellow, Department of Organizational Behaviour and Director of the Senior Executive Programme and the Global Consortium, London Business School NORMA M. RICCUCCI Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College, University of Albany, State University of New York DAVID RICHARDS Lecturer in Politics, University of Liverpool GERALD WISTOW Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. Klappentext The book uses a biographical approach to analyse the potential for, forms of, and constraints upon bureaucratic leadership in modern government. Case studies, written by experts in the different fields, assess the impact of particular officials operating in Whitehall, the United States federal government, the health service, local government, and Europe. The book brings together an innovative methodology with a wide policy coverage. Zusammenfassung The book uses a biographical approach to analyse the potential for! forms of! and constraints upon bureaucratic leadership in modern government. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems; K.Theakston Excellence in Administrative Leadership: An Examination of Six Federal Execucrats; N.M.Riccucci Three Giants of the Inter-war Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson; G.K.Fry Innovators at 10 Downing Street; J.Burnham & G.W.Jones The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: A Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre; D.Richards Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: A Fundamental Antithesis ; K.Isaac-Henry Lord Cockfield: A European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur; C.Lord Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: The Contribution to Health and Social Care Policymaking of Sir Roy Griffiths 1982-1992; S.Harrison & G.Wistow Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values; E.Mallon Index...

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List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems; K.Theakston Excellence in Administrative Leadership: An Examination of Six Federal Execucrats; N.M.Riccucci Three Giants of the Inter-war Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson; G.K.Fry Innovators at 10 Downing Street; J.Burnham & G.W.Jones The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: A Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre; D.Richards Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: A Fundamental Antithesis ; K.Isaac-Henry Lord Cockfield: A European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur; C.Lord Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: The Contribution to Health and Social Care Policymaking of Sir Roy Griffiths 1982-1992; S.Harrison & G.Wistow Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values; E.Mallon Index

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Authors Theakston, Kevin Theakston, THEAKSTON KEVIN
Assisted by Theakston (Editor), K Theakston (Editor), K. Theakston (Editor), Kevin Theakston (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 07.12.1999
 
EAN 9780333749685
ISBN 978-0-333-74968-5
No. of pages 239
Series Transforming Government
Understanding Governance
Transforming Government
Subjects Guides
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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