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Bureaucrats and Leadership
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems
- 2 Excellence in Administrative Leadership: an Examination of Six US Federal Execucrats
- 3 Three Giants of the Inter-war British Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson
- 4 Innovators at 10 Downing Street
- 5 The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: a Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre
- 6 Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: a Fundamental Antithesis
- 7 Lord Cockfield: a European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur
- 8 Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: the Contribution to Health and Social Care Policy-making of Sir Roy Griffiths, 1982-92
- 9 Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values
- Index