Geoffrey K Fry

Biographic Data

ID4128416
NAMEGeoffrey K Fry
GIVEN NAMESGeoffrey K
FAMILY NAMEFry
SIGNATUREFRY G K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS94
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX5

  • Policy and Management British Civil Servic

    Geoffrey K FryBOOKPolicy and Management British…2014

  • Commentary: A bottomless pit of political surprise'?: The Political 'Mystery' of the Thatcher Era

    Geoffrey K FryARTICLETwentieth Century British History2010Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Commentary: ‘A bottomless pit of political surprise’?: The Political ‘Mystery’ of the Thatcher Era Get access Geoffrey K. Fry Geoffrey K. Fry * University of Leeds *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 540–557, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwq037 Published: 08 October 2010

  • More Than ‘Counting Manhole Covers’: The Evolution Of The British Tradition Of Public Administration

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1999Cited by: 8

    This article is a revised version of an inaugural lecture, delivered at the University of Leeds on 30 April 1998. The focus of the lecture and, thus, of this article is concerned with administrative history and the civil service. The first part of the article is about the pioneers of the academic study of public administration, and the subject’s relationship with political philosophy. The second part examines the role of the Webbs and the British…

  • Parliament and ‘morality’: Thatcher, Powell and Populism

    Geoffrey K FryARTICLEContemporary British History1998Cited by: 2References: 3

    Populism has little or no place in British politics. Only two politicians have been seriously considered to be populists in recent times, and these are, of course, Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher. Though definitions of 'populism' vary, this article argues that, if one takes it as meaning 'the belief that the majority opinion of the people is checked by an elitist minority', neither Powell nor Mrs Thatcher were populists. In Powell's case, he w…

  • Whitehall in the 1950s and 1960s

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1998References: 18

    This paper was originally presented at the ESRC Whitehall Programme/Public Record Office Conference on Whitehall in the 1950s and 1960s, Policy Making in an Expanding Government, which was held at the Public Record Office, Kew on April 16-1 7th 1997, and it is now published in a form that has been subject to the refereeing process. Its argument is that in the first part of the 1950s, as had been the case really since 1945, the dominant attitude t…

  • The Conservatives and the Civil Service: ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1997Cited by: 1

    The period since 1979 has witnessed more radical change in the civil service than in any other peacetime era in its history. Such has been the order of change that Lord Bancroft, the former Head of the Home Civil Service, has suggested that the civil service was in danger of being ‘demolished’ and of there being a return to the ills of the ‘unreformed’ service before the 1850s. This would be to take the ‘two steps back’ of the article’s title bef…

  • The Fulton Committee's Management Consultancy Group: The Blocks of Civil Service Work examined

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1995References: 1

    Early access to the papers of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-68 which was officially granted to the author enables the programme of work pursued by the Committee's Management Consultancy Group to be examined in detail for the first time. More than a quarter of a century later, the work of the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service has long since receded into history. Indeed, the present observer has had the opportunity to w…

  • The Path to the Privatization of Public Enterprises in Britain: A Public Policy Analysis

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1994References: 5

    This article analyses the path to the privatization of public enterprise in Britain from the Era of Nationalization of 1945-1951, to the Era of Benign Neglect of 1951-1961, to the Era of Pseudo-Commercialism of 1961-1979. Set in a public policy context, this article argues that, though the adoption of private enterprise norms from 1961 onwards would seem to anticipate privatization, this latter policy only followed an exhaustion of a variety of a…

  • The Shaping of the Fulton Report on the Civil Service

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1993Cited by: 2References: 2

    Early access to the papers of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-68, and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the Committee received, which has been officially granted to the author, enables the manner in which the Committee shaped its Report, and particularly the controversial opening Chapter of that Report to be studied fully for the first time. * The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Economic and Soci…

  • Developments in Civil Service Pay Since the Megaw Report

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1993References: 3

    This article analyses the development of the Civil Service pay arrangements from the Megaw Committee of 1981-82 and its Report onwards. It involves a consideration of that Report and of the subsequent pay agreements that emerged within the Civil Service, most notably between 1987 and 1989. The trend towards the greater individualisation in the pay of civil servants was then accentuated by the renewed emphasis on performance pay in 1992 agreements…

  • The Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-68: Precedents, Tasks and Procedures

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1992References: 5

    Early access to the papers of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-68, and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the Committee received, which has been officially granted to the author, enables the Committee's procedures and how it perceived its tasks to be studied fully for the first time. The article also considers the question of the precedents for the Fulton type of inquiry into the Civil Service concluding that it was…

  • The Research Activity of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-1968

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Policy and Administration1992References: 3

    Early access to the papers of the Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service of 1966-1968, and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the Committee received, which has been officially granted to the author, enables the manner in which the Committee organised its research activity to be studied fully for the first time. The article shows that the Fulton Committee did not orgainise its research activity in a systematic manner, though its assoc…

  • The Fulton Committee's Management Consultancy Group: An Assessment of Its Contribution

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1991Cited by: 4References: 2

    Early access to the papers of the Fulton committee of 1966–8 and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the committee received, which has been Officially granted to the author, enables the contribution of its Management Consultancy Group to be studied fully for the first time, that study being complemented by interviews with the surviving members of the committee, its secretariat, and of the group. The article argues that the group was innov…

  • A Reconsideration of the British General Election of 1935 and the Electoral Revolution of 1945

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEHistory1991Cited by: 1

  • The Fulton Committee and The‘preference for Relevance Issue

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1990Cited by: 2References: 6

    Early access to the papers of the Fulton committee of 1966‐8, and to the still unpublished oral evidence that the committee received, which has been officially granted to the author, enables the issue of ‘preferences for relevance’ in the directentry recruitment of administrators, which divided the committee, to be studied fully for the first time. This study is complemented by interviews with the surviving members of the committee and with membe…

  • Whitehall, Warren Fisher and Administrative Change

    Geoffrey K FryARTICLEParliamentary Affairs1990

    WHITEHALL, WARREN FISHER AND ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE Get access Geoffrey K. Fry Geoffrey K. Fry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 1990, Pages 123–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052230 Published: 01 January 1990

  • Britain's Administrative Elite: Permanent Secretaries 1900–1986

    Open AccessKevin Theakston, Geoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1989Cited by: 13References: 1

    This article is based upon analysis of biographical data of those men and women who reached the rank of Permanent Secretary in the career civil service between 1900 and 1986. Among other matters, the article gives details of the schools and universities attended by Permanent Secretaries, their age on, and mode of, entry to the civil service, and their career pattern within that service, including the number of departments served in, the age of ap…

  • The Thatcher Government, the Financial Management Initiative, and the ‘New CML Service’

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1988Cited by: 17References: 6

    The Thatcher era has been a traumatic one for the career Civil Service, so much so that one leading civil servant has suggested that the order of change is such that a ‘new Civil Service’ is emerging. This paper examines, first, interpretations of what has happened to the Civil Service under the Thatcher government; next, it reviews the developments relating to the economy programme and the Financial Management Initiative; then it considers the c…

  • Symposium on Improving Management in Government

    Open AccessGeoffrey K Fry, GEOFFREY FRY et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration1988Cited by: 11References: 2

  • The British Career Civil Service under Challenge

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPolitical Studies1986Cited by: 5References: 3

    For the first time in the modern history of British government it is a matter of serious public debate whether or not there should continue to be a career civil service, more particularly a career higher civil service. Important though the advent of the Conservative Government first elected in 1979 has been in bringing the matter of the career civil service to a head, discontent with the kind of service which Sir Charles Trevelyan advocated in th…

  • Goverment and the Civil Service: A View of Recent Developments

    Geoffrey K FryARTICLEParliamentary Affairs1986Cited by: 1

    Journal Article GOVERMENT AND THE CIVIL SERVICE: A VIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Get access Geoffrey K. Fry Geoffrey K. Fry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 1986, Pages 267–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052045 Published: 01 July 1986

  • The Development of the Thatcher Government's ‘Grand Strategy’ for the Civil Service: A Public Policy Perspective

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1984Cited by: 13References: 3

    Since the Thatcher Government came to office, the policies which it has pursued towards the civil service have been characterized by its determination to emphasize political control over the work of government departments and to‘de‐privilege’ the civil service. The paper traces and evaluates the development of the Conservative Government's‘grand strategy’ for the civil service which was eventually given the form of the financial management initia…

  • The Atfack on the Civil Service and the Response of the Insiders

    Geoffrey K FryARTICLEParliamentary Affairs1984Cited by: 1

    Journal Article THE ATFACK ON THE CIVIL SERVICE AND THE RESPONSE OF THE INSIDERS Get access Geoffrey K. Fry Geoffrey K. Fry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 353–363, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051949 Published: 01 January 1984

  • Compromise With the Market: The Megaw Report on Civil Service Pay 1982

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPublic Administration1983Cited by: 1References: 1

  • The British Diplomatic Service — Facts and Fantasies

    Open AccessGeoffrey K FryARTICLEPolitics1982References: 1