Civil Service Today

Informationen zum Autor Gavin Drewry is Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Social Policy, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London. Tony Butcher is Lecturer in Government in the Department of Social Science and Administration, Goldsmith's College, London. Klappentext In this revised and enlarged edition of their established textbook, Gavin Drewry and Tony Butcher bring their wide-ranging, critical survey of the British civil service fully up-to-date, concluding with an examination of the nature and significance of the "Next Steps" programme which is currently transforming the structure and management of the civil service. Zusammenfassung * No other textbook on the civil service is as comprehensive and wide--ranging* Established textbook! now revised! enlarged and updated* The first edition was widely and very well reviewed. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents. Acknowledgements. Prologue: Some Crises of the 1980s. 1. Charting the Territory. 2. How Things Came to Be. 3. Some Facts and Figures. 4. The Universal Department. 5. Recruitment and Training. 6. Conditions of Service. 7. The Working Context. 8. Ministers and Civil Servants. 9. The Public Face of Private Government. 10. Slimmer and Fitter: the Quest for Efficiency and Effectiveness. 11. The Civil Service at the Crossroads?. 12. The a Next Stepsa Programme. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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• Authors: Butcher, Tony Butcher, Tony (Goldsmith's College) Butcher, Drewry, G Drewry, Gavin Drewry, Gavin (Royal Holloway and Bedford New Coll Drewry, Gavin (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Drewry, Gavin Butcher Drewry
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.1991
• EAN: 9780631181729
• ISBN: 978-0-631-18172-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education