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Leadership in Whitehall

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Kevin Theakston

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Part of the book series: Transforming Government (TRGO)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 1-11

  3. Charles Trevelyan

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 12-40

  4. Warren Fisher

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 41-68

  5. Edward Bridges

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 69-94

  6. Norman Brook

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 95-130

  7. Evelyn Sharp

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 131-147

  8. ‘Otto’ Clarke

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 148-172

  9. William Armstrong

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 173-201

  10. Robert Armstrong

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 202-226

  11. Derek Rayner

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 227-248

  12. Conclusion

    • Kevin Theakston
    Pages 249-261

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 262-266
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About this book

An entertaining and authoritative study of leadership in the British civil service from one of the top authors in the field. Kevin Theakston draws the lessons of how change in central government can be managed and implemented from a series of biographical studies of the acknowledged leaders in the civil service in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - from Charles Trevelyan, the founder of the modern civil service, to modern Mandarins such as Robert Armstrong and Margaret Thatcher's personal adviser the outsider Sir Derek Rayner. The case studies are linked to the wider themes of leadership and administrative culture in Whitehall, illustrating the patterns of change and continuity over time. This highly readable and innovative study will appeal to students of British politics and government, public administration, public policy, political history and comparative politics as well as policymakers, civil servants and others interested in the policymaking and governing process.

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Theakston shows that individual actors matter, and they can have significant impact...but his writing is informative and stimulating: indeed, the book is that rarity in academic publications - an enjoyable read!' - Robert Pyper, Parliamentary Affairs

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Kevin Theakston

About the author

KEVIN THEAKSTON is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds and the author of Junior Ministers in British Government, The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service in 1945. He is among the best known writers on the British Civil Service. This book arises from his research for the ESRC Whitehall Programme. His accompanying edited volume on Bureaucrats and Leadership covering Britain, Europe and the United States will also be published in the Transforming Government series.

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