The Civil Service Commission, 1855-1975
Author | : K. M. Reader |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : K. M. Reader |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Great Britain. Civil Service Department |
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Author | : Richard A. Chapman |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 9780714653402 |
This book is a history and analysis of the government department most important in the development of the unified Civil Service in the United Kingdom.
Author | : Richard A. Chapman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136451730 |
First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil Service Selection Board which was the key institution in the pioneering new approach to personnel selection initiated in Britain after the Second World War. It has been regarded as the model for personnel recruitment in other contexts and for civil service recruitment in other countries. The book raises fundamental questions about the criteria for recruitment and promotion of leading officials in British central government and offers a rare glimpse of the day to day work of top civil servants and the administrative culture in which they operate.
Author | : A. J. G. M. Bekke |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781782541523 |
"This comprehensive book will prove popular with scholars and students of public administration, political science and international affairs as well as civil servants, politicians and policymakers."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Keith Robbins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780198224969 |
Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author | : Jill Knight |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844152537 |
Civil servants are not generally known for their soldierly qualities. Yet in the Great War a volunteer regiment of 'civil servants and their friends' served with distinction in the front line, fighting in many of the major battles. This new study, the first since the 1920s, draws on previously unpublished material personal memoirs, diaries and interviews to tell their extraordinary story, and is supported by a wealth of marvellous photographs."
Author | : Bernard S. Silberman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 1993-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226757374 |
Blending political, historical, and sociological analysis, Bernard S. Silberman offers a provocative explanation for the bureaucratic development of the modern state. The study of modern state bureaucracy has its origins in Max Weber's analysis of the modes of social domination, which Silberman takes as his starting point. Whereas Weber contends that the administration of all modern nation-states would eventually converge in one form characterized by rationality and legal authority, Silberman argues that the process of bureaucratic rationalization took, in fact, two courses. One path is characterized by permeable organizational boundaries and the allocation of information by "professionals." The other features well-defined boundaries and the allocation of information by organizational rules. Through case studies of France, Japan, the United States, and Great Britain, Silberman demonstrates that this divergence stems from differences in leadership structure and in levels of uncertainty about leadership succession in the nineteenth century. Silberman concludes that the rise of bureacratic rationality was primarily a response to political problems rather than social and economic concerns. Cages of Reason demonstrates how rationalization can have occurred over a wide range of cultures at various levels of economic development. It will be of considerable interest to readers in a number of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, and public administration. "Silberman has produced an invaluable, densely packed work that those with deep knowledge of public administrative development will find extremely rewarding." —David H. Rosenbloom, American Political Science Review "An erudite, incisive, and vibrant book, the product of intensive study and careful reflection. Given its innovative theoretical framework and the wealth of historical materials contained in it, this study will generate debate and stimulate research in sociology, political science, and organizational theory. It is undoubtedly the best book on the comparative evolution of the modern state published in the last decade."—Mauro F. Guillen, Contemporary Sociology
Author | : James Southern |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000381803 |
This book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered British foreign policy during the Cold War and the end of the British Empire. After the Second World War, cultural changes in British society forced a reconsideration of erstwhile diplomatic archetypes, as restricting recruitment to white, heterosexual, upper- or middle-class men gradually became less socially acceptable and less politically expedient. After the advent of the tripartite school system and then mass university education, the Foreign Office had to consider recruiting candidates who were qualified but had not been ‘socialized’ in the public schools and Oxbridge. Similarly, the passage of the 1948 Nationality Act technically meant nonwhites were eligible to join. The rise of the gay rights movement and postwar women’s liberation both generated further, unique dilemmas for Foreign Office recruiters. Diplomatic Identity in Postwar Britain seeks to destabilize concepts like 'talent', 'merit', 'equality' and 'representation', arguing that these were contested ideas that were subject to political and cultural renegotiation and revision throughout the period in question.
Author | : P. J. A. Levine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003-02-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521530507 |
This book highlights the growing divide in nineteenth-century intellectual circles between amateur and professional interest, and explores the institutional means whereby professional ascendancy was achieved in the broad field of studies of the past. It is concerned with how antiquarian 'gentlemen of leisure', pursuing their interests through local archaeological societies, were, by the end of the century, relegated to the sidelines of the now university-based discipline of history. At the same time it explores the theological as well as technical barriers which arrested the development of archaeology in this period. This is a notable contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England, attending not simply to the ideas perpetrated by these communities of scholarship but to their social status, relating such social consideration to a more traditional intellectual history to create a new social history of ideas.