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by Patrick Dunleavy (Editor), R. a. W. Rhodes (Editor)
This new reader is designed to break the mould of core executive studies by broadening the focus of analysis from the conventional concentration on the relative power of Prime Minister and Cabinet to assess the whole battery of mechanisms which co-ordinate policy and manage conflict. It brings together chapters introducing new theoretical perspectives and assessing the changes in executive structure and decision making from Wilson to Thatcher with in-depth case studies of the executive in action.
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This edited collections brings together a selection of key readings to provide a timely reassessment of the workings of the British executive. It broadens analysis beyond the conventional and unhelpful focus on the relative powers of prime minister and cabinet to cover the network of institutions which coordinate policy and manage conflict. The key issue is whether any person or institution can effectively direct the government machine.
Part One surveys the current 'state of the art' in studying the core executive. Part Two illustrates the contribution of the contemporary historian to the study of the subject, focusing attention on issues of interpretation and method, and including authoritative accounts of the fall of Margaret Thatcher. Part Three provides original, theoretically informed case studies of the British core executive 'in action', including a distinctive reinterpretation of the Westland affair. Most unusually, it also provides studies rooted in the quantitative analysis of executive behaviour which document, for example, how present-day prime ministers avoid the House of Commons. Rhodes and Dunleavey are the leading political scientists in the UK who pioneered the concept of the 'core executive'. This book brings together a set of key contributions to the debate they have fostered; it will significantly reshape the way government at the centre in Britain is studied.Author Biography
R.A.W. RHODES is Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle Upn Tyne. He is currently Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council's research inititive on Local Governance, and Director of the ESRC's Whitehall Research Programme. His recent publications include Beyond Westminster and Whitehall and the edited collections Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era and Policy Networks in British Government.
PATRICK DUNLEAVY is Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice and Theories of the State. He has been co-editor of Developments in British Politics since the first edition in 1983.R.A.W. RHODES is Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle Upn Tyne. He is currently Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council's research inititive on Local Governance, and Director of the ESRC's Whitehall Research Programme. His recent publications include Beyond Westminster and Whitehall and the edited collections Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era and Policy Networks in British Government. PATRICK DUNLEAVY is Professor of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice and Theories of the State. He has been co-editor of Developments in British Politics since the first edition in 1983.
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