1st Edition

Constitutional Bureaucracy The Development of the British Central Administration Since the Eighteenth Century

By Henry Parris Copyright 1969
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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)