The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy Reforming the British Civil Serv
The book provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the British Civil Service along with a historically grounded account of its development in the period from Margaret Thatcher to the Tony Blair premiership. It assesses continuity and ch
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LORENZO CASTELLANI
The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy
Lorenzo Castellani
The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy Reforming the British Civil Service
Lorenzo Castellani LUISS Guido Carli Rome, Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-90031-5 ISBN 978-3-319-90032-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90032-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018939730 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: decisiveimages/Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
The Civil Service has been neglected by historians. We know a lot about the machinations of politicians in most twentieth-century governments. Yet the role of civil servants, and the Civil Service, is too often neglected. Peter Riddell, Director of Institute for Government, 2011
Preface
In 1969, the historian Henry Parris published his seminal work Constitutional Bureaucracy, where he gave account of the changes in British Central Government from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, identifying the transition from a patronage bureaucracy to a constitutional one. Nearly fifty years later, many other institutional transformations have occurred, marking the transition from Parris’s constitutional bureaucracy to a new, managerial bureaucracy that originated from the political, economic, cultural and social changes that had begun by the end of the seventies. This work provides the history of that last transformation, which took place between 1979 and 2007, the period of the Thatcher, Major and Blair Governments, focusing on the Civil Service, the bureaucracy of the central government
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