How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain? This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open way of speaking about British government.
How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain? ...
How should we study government? How do we know what we know about British government? What is governance? Governance in Britain has changed enormously since 1980, from the market-led Thatcher years to Blair's joined up government. This book examines the situation.
How should we study government? How do we know what we know about British government? What is governance? Governance in Britain has changed enormously...
Comparing Westminster explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system. It examines in detail four interrelated features of Westminster systems. Firstly, the increasing centralization in collective, responsible cabinet government. Second, the constitutional convention of ministerial and collective responsibility. Third, the role of a professional, non-partisan public service. And finally, parliament's relationship to the executive. The authors explain the changes that have occured in the Westminster model by...
Comparing Westminster explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster s...
A unique contribution to the study of Australian policy, politics, and government institutions, this book examines the position of chief of staff to the Australian prime minister from the perspective of key individuals who have held it. Exploring the support needs of Australian political leaders, it traces the forces that have shaped the growth and specialization of the prime minister s office since Gough Whitlam first formalized the appointment of a trusted senior person as head of his private office in 1972. Individuals in successive PMOs have long been recognized as key players, but their...
A unique contribution to the study of Australian policy, politics, and government institutions, this book examines the position of chief of staff to t...
This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the various policies and outcomes emerging from the increasing salience of neoclassical and institutional economics or, neoliberalism and new institutionalisms. In doing so, it suggests that that the British state consists of a vast array of meaningful actions that may coalesce into contingent, shifting, and contestable practices. Based on original fieldwork, it examines the myriad ways in which local...
This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with inte...
Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psychologists, Sovietologists, political anthropologists, and by scholars in comparative and development studies from the 1940s to the 1970s. Thereafter, the field lost its way with the rise of structuralism, neo-institutionalism, and rational choice approaches to the study of politics, government, and governance. Recently, however, students of politics have returned to studying the role of individual leaders and the exercise of leadership to explain...
Political leadership has made a comeback. It was studied intensively not only by political scientists but also by political sociologists and psycholog...
