The British Administrative System
Principles Versus Practice
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 1994
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-415-01550-9 (ISBN)
Description
This student text brings together and discusses different principles and ideas that are used in the description of policy making and administration in Britain. These include Collective Responsibility, Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Arms Lenght Control, Organisation by Function, Judicial Review of Administration. The problem for those advancing these concepts and those receiving them, is that there is a massive gap between theory and practice.
Grant Jordan reassesses the tool kit of terms to help students achieve a more practical understanding of modern British administration.
Grant Jordan reassesses the tool kit of terms to help students achieve a more practical understanding of modern British administration.
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`. One of the many strenghts of Grant Jordan's honest but deeply pessimistic new book is that it drectly confronts and defends the role being played by academics in criticising contemporary reforms. His own analysis of "Next Steps", and the increasingly elusive doctrine of ministerial responsibility provides a telling indictment of intellectual confusion, as well as as some pointed and witty aporisms which will adorn essay titles and examination questions for years to come.' - Parliamentary AffairsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-01550-9 (9780415015509)
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Person
Joseph P. Willis received his PhD from The University of Tulsa in Victorian Studies. After teaching for a year at The University of Tulsa on a postdoctoral scholarship, he currently is employed as an adjunct professor of English at The University of Tulsa and at Tulsa Community College. Willis has given numerous talks and presentations on West German Cold War concerns: Threatened masculinity and the arms race in Rainer Boldt's 1985 film series Das Raetsel der Sandbank; Transgressive masculinity in Vadim Glowna's 1986 Des Teufels Paradies; and, Threatened masculinity in Paul May's 1967 Das gefleckte Band. He has received the Certificate German as Foreign Language (Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache) from the Goethe Institute as well as a Fulbright student scholarship for teaching and research in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, he has received numerous grants from the Goethe Institute for language immersion seminars held in both Germany and the United States.
Content
Introduction: British Administrative System 1. Government in the Fog 2. Getting the Design of Government 'Right' 3. Understanding Organisations: the uses of theory 4. Coordination by Political Clout 5. Collective Ministerial Responsibility 6. Individual Ministerial Responsibility 7. Public and Private 8. Administration and the Law 9. Describing Next Steps Changes