Centrism and the mandarin class
Understanding the meta-politics of Whitehall bureaucratic neutrality
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6113149 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Peter Ribbins (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, autor correspondente), Brian Sherratt (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) |
| Ano | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 5-30 |
| Data de publicação | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Public Policy and Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0952-0767 • E-ISSN: 1749-4192 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0952076714531810 |
| OpenAlex | W2162950071 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 6 |
| Referências citadas | 23 |
The role of permanent secretary represents the apogee of a career in the Whitehall bureaucracy. Even so it is under-researched and, with exceptions, notably Dunleavy et al. on bureau shaping, under-theorised. Emanating from a longitudinal survey of eight successive permanent secretaries at the Ministry of Education from 1976 to 2011, this paper identifies them as members of a meta-political class who, whilst influencing the policy decisions of politicians, are nonetheless not members of the political class. A model locating them across a spectrum of six related yet distinct genres of ‘centrism’, and a continuum of five contingent descriptive styles is used to illustrate and interpret their praxis
Bureaucracy · Christian ministry · Epistemology · Mandarin Chinese · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
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| Citações por ano | 0,6 |
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| Intervalo de citações | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Altamente citado | Não |