1st Edition
Constitutional Bureaucracy The Development of the British Central Administration Since the Eighteenth Century
Originally published in 1969, this book discusses specific issues in the rise of a ‘constitutional bureaucracy’ as a counter-part to constitutional monarchy. These issues, including patronage, ministerial power and responsibility and the ‘grey-eminence’ myth are set against the relationship among legislation and administration, Treasury control and the relevance of public administration to our conception of public accountability and ‘representative bureaucracy.’
1.The Origins of the Permanent Civil Service, 1780-1830 2. The Decline of Patronage 3. Ministerial Responsibility: The Nineteenth Century Reformulation 4. Ministers in their Departments 5. The Permanent Officials 6. Law and Administration 7. The Ministers Powers 8. Some Departments and Treasury Control 9. The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government 10. Our Present Discontents
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Biography
Henry Parris
Original review of Constitutional Bureaucracy:
‘…a careful distillation, concisely written.’ Roy MaCleod, The American Historical Review, Vol 78, No. 5 (1973)
