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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One Policy Problems, Present Modes and Institutions -- 1 The contexts of normative models of accountability -- 2 Normative models of accountability -- 3 Existing institutions for accountability -- Part Two A Model and Frames for Analysis -- 4 A model for analysing issues and a first line of analysis: political theory -- 5 Values and affect -- 6 Epistemologies and evaluation -- 7 Conclusions -- Appendix: Education accountability projects financed by the SSRC -- Bibliographical notes and references -- Index.

Rudolf Klein's article not only brings together many current theories of policy analysis and of public expenditure but also creates the anxiety that the use of phrases such as 'public expenditure' might turn what are obstinate and worthwhile issues into abstractions. Klein's opening statement that 'public expenditure is quite the most visible and quantifiable measure of government activity' gives us due warning that public expenditure is being regarded as an independent category, the characteristics and behaviour of which are capable of definition and analysis in their own right. But public expenditure is meaningful only if it is treated as a summation of multiple decisions (and on one dimension only) and of institutional relationships.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction the Place of Committees in Policy Making -- 1: Advisory Committees and Their Place in the Government and Education Services -- The Role of Government Committees -- The Committees and Educational Government -- 2: The Origins and Workings of Committees -- Types of Advisory Bodies -- Standing Committees and Councils: Their Emerging Purposes -- The Origins and Workings of the Board of Education Consultative Committee -- The Emergence of the CAC -- The Central Advisory Council for Education -- The Secondary School Examinations Council -- The National Advisory Council on the Training and Supply of Teachers -- Ad Hoc Departmental Committees and Working Parties -- 3: Membership and Methods of Working -- Chairmen -- Members -- The Secretary -- Research and Witnesses -- 4: The Major Councils and Committees, 1920 to 1972: Their Main Themes -- Educational Ideas and Practice -- Selectivity -- Education and Social Opportunity -- Educational Governance -- Trofessionalism -- 5: Four Major Reports -- The First Hadow Report-Education of the Adolescent -1926 -- The Percy Report-Higher Technological Education -1945 -- The Crowther Report-Fifteen to Eighteen-1959 -- The Plowden Report-Children and Their Primary Schools-1967 -- 6: The Future of Advisory Systems -- Impact -- The Main Policies -- Their Place in Educational Government -- Appendix 1: Cost and Production Time of Reports -- Appendix 2: Membership of Certain Committees -- Further Reading -- Sources.

"Originally published in 1975. This masterly study of policies and policy-makers in education opens up a major, and fascinating, area of public policy to analysis. In this book Professor Kogan draws together many of his previous findings to provide a searching examination and overview of education and its relationship both to government and to individuals and groups within the system. The result is not only a definitive statement on the making of educational policy, but a study of pressure groups; and in broader terms it is a commentary on the democratic efficiency of the British policymaking process both inside and outside Parliament. The core of the book is an analysis of the main policies which were the major concerns of educational government between 1960 and 1974. This shows how the various interest groups in education differ in their attitudes and their ways of working; and provides both an intriguing insight into the historical development of education over this key period and a variety of personal views from the individuals who helped to shape this development."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Index of Abbreviations -- 1. The Labour Party in Turmoil -- The new groups of activists -- 2. The Evolution of the Outside Left -- The tradition of dissent -- The weakening of the leadership's authority -- 3. The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD) Emerges -- The origins of the CLPD -- Mandatory reselection -- Model resolutions -- Moves towards mandatory reselection -- The 1977 and 1978 conferences: inroads into the unions -- Scanlon's million votes -- 4. Groups of the Outside Left -- The left-wing spectrum -- Outside Left and Inside Left -- The CLPD's tactics -- The people behind the CLPD -- Resources of the CLPD -- Motivations and ideologies -- The Labour Co-ordinating Committee -- 5. The Left Grows in Power (1979-80) -- The 'winter of discontent' -- Reinforcing the left's case -- The 1979 conference -- The 'index of moral fervour' -- 6. Unity on the Outside Left (1980) -- The right attempts to fight back -- The Campaign for Labour Victory (CLV) -- The Commission of Inquiry -- The Rank and File Mobilising Committee (RFMC) -- The Rank and File Mobilising Committee and the trade unions -- Internal organisation of the RFMC -- 7. 'We have had every major group against us but we have won': Triumph at Blackpool and Wembley -- The electoral college -- Campaigning for Wembley -- Callaghan resigns -- Organising for Wembley -- The Wembley conference -- 8. Testing the Electoral College: the Benn Campaign -- The contenders for power -- The Benn campaign -- The Inside Left abstains -- 1981 Brighton conference -- 9. The Right Fights Back -- The Tatchell affair -- Divisions on the left -- Attitudes on the right -- Trade unions -- Labour Liaison '82 -- The NEC and Militant -- The 1982 Blackpool conference -- 10. 'London's Ours': the Triumph of the Outside Left in London.