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Zusatztext Appreciated and despised in equal measure, political advisers have been at the heart of government decision-making for many centuries. This valuable collection of essays digs deep into the history and more recent practice of political advice to expose why these advisers, while sometimes controversial, have been so valued by generation after generation of our political leaders. Informationen zum Autor Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Jacqueline Rose is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews. Klappentext Political advice has never seemed more prominent - or more problematic. This volume of essays speaks to a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence, the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice, the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised, the nature and idioms of political advice literature, the ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion, and the curious history of advisers' success and failure. With contributions from classics and literature as well as from history and politics, this volume treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion. Moreover, a unique practitioners' perspective on the problem of political advice is provided by the contributions of politicians, political advisers and former senior civil servants. Vorwort This book brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of political advice and influence. Zusammenfassung Political advice has never seemed more prominent – or more problematic. This volume of essays speaks to a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence, the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice, the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised, the nature and idioms of political advice literature, the ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion, and the curious history of advisers’ success and failure. With contributions from classics and literature as well as from history and politics, this volume treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion. Moreover, a unique practitioners’ perspective on the problem of political advice is provided by the contributions of politicians, political advisers and former senior civil servants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Political advising - Lord Butler 1. Political advice: Past, present - and future? - Colin Kidd and Jacqueline Rose 2. What would Perikles do, and why it still matters - asking the ancient Greek gods for political advice - Esther Eidinow 3. Obliquus ductus: Indirect political advice in the Renaissance - Joanne Paul 4. How not to do it: Poets and counsel, Thomas Wyatt to Geoffrey Hill - Colin Burrow 5. William Davison and the perils of advice in Elizabethan England - Jacqueline Rose 6. The parliamentary way of counsel - Paul Seaward 7. Smith as spad? Adam Smith and advice to politicians - Jesse Norman 8. A mirror for princes? British orientalists and the Persian Question - Ali M. Ansari 9. Reflections on the Central Policy Review Staff - William Waldegrave 10. Astrology and advice at the Reagan court - Colin Kidd 11. You've got to ask the right expert: Who gives political advice? - Marius S. Ostrowski 12. Advice in a time of belief: Civil service impartiality in two referendums - Jim Gallagher 13. Advising Trump - Rob Goodman 14. Managing the growing tension between politics and governance: Hard choices ahead for Whitehall and Westminster - Martin Donnelly ...
