Research Catalog

Title

Washington, Westminster, and Whitehall / Walter Williams.

Author

Williams, Walter, 1932-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Details

Description

xii, 233 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A study of the so-called "British Disease" in which the author argues that only with wholesale modernization, managerial and analytic changes, can Britain hope to provide the institutional capacity to cope with its problems, which are those of deep social and economic decline.

Subject

• Great Britain. Parliament > Reform
• Great Britain. Parliament
• Großbritannien Government
• Großbritannien > Regierung
• 1979-1997
• Administrative agencies > Great Britain > Management
• Administrative agencies > Great Britain > Reorganization
• Executive departments > Great Britain > Management
• Executive departments > Great Britain > Reorganization
• Administrative agencies > Management
• Administrative agencies > Reorganization
• Executive departments > Management
• Executive departments > Reorganization
• Legislative bodies > Reform
• Politics and government
• Organisationswandel
• Parlamentsreform
• Administrative agencies > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1979-1997
• Great Britain > Politics and government
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1979-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The government problem in broad perspective -- 2. An American's view of British government -- 3. Expert information and analysis -- 4. Top leadership -- 5. Public management -- 6. The analytic perspective -- 7. Modernizing the parliament and the center -- 8. Modernizing the ministries -- 9. Breaking the pattern.

ISBN

• 0521351855
• 9780521351850

LCCN

88011852

OCLC

• ocm17840835
• 17840835
• SCSB-1721453

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library