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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Diamond is Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary! University of London and Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College! Oxford. He was formerly Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. He is the co-author of Beyond New Labour; Social Justice in the Global Age; After the Third Way; and Global Europe! Social Europe. Klappentext Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government! but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. Zusammenfassung Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government! but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables Glossary of Abbreviations Acknowledgements IntroductionGovernance! Power and Politics in the Contemporary British State Part I: The Theory of Governing Britain1 The British Political Tradition and Whitehall Reform 2 The Westminster Model and the Whitehall Paradigm 3 Interpreting Continuity and Change in the Labour Party's Statecraft 4 The Core Executive! Governance and Power Part II: The Practice of Governing Britain5 Mapping the Case Studies of the 'Primeval Policy Soup' 6 The Centre and Departments in the Policy-making Process 7 Government and Governance: Patterns of Continuity and Change in the Whitehall Paradigm 8 The Role of Tradition and Path Dependency: New in Power 9 Conclusion: Power! Policy and the Modern State Appendix I: Breakdown of Interviewees Appendix II: Policy Governance under New Labour: Delivery Fields in Academies! Family-Nurse Partnerships! and the National Economic Council Appendix III: 'Renewal and Strategic Audit': Memorandum to the Prime Minister Appendix IV: New Labour's Critique of Whitehall and Proposals for Reforming the Centre of Government: Memorandum to the Prime Minister June 2000 Notes Bibliography Index ...
