STATECRAFT – improving government
With Prof Colin Talbot
Out first ‘Policy@Manchester’ Week – 29 Oct to 2 Nov – is now finalised with a great set of speakers and events.
For more details got to http://www.manchester.ac.uk/policy and follow the link to the Week.
To reserve a place at an event email policy@manchester.ac.uk Continue reading “Policy@Manchester week: great line up of speakers and events. All Welcome.”
I am currently (re)exploring some issues around the nature of the British “administrative elite” – which, for reasons I’ll explain in a later publication, I am restricting to mainly the Senior Civil Service (SCS) for the moment. Continue reading “The Changing (?) Sociology of the Senior Civil Service – what do you know?”
The #GreatWestCoastRailShambles has raised again the issue of the competence, or otherwise, of the Senior Civil Service.
Ministers are blaming the mess purely on civil servants, whilst others are pointing to a flawed policy. Without a lot more information, it’s hard to know how much of each was involved. But it certainly gives even more ‘edge’ to current project to re-examine the relationship between Ministers and Mandarins commissioned by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude. The contract was awarded to IPPR, with me participating in the project (see here). Continue reading “Reforming the Senior Civil Service – what do you think?”
STATECRAFT - improving government 