The ethos of the Cabinet Office: a comment on the testimony of officials

In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 68, Heft Summer 90

Abstract

Argues that Anthony Seldon's description of the Cabinet Office (Vol.68, pp.103-22) conveys very accurately the formulations of those he has interviewed, but his methods fall short of providing a full explanation of the Cabinet Office's position in British government. By taking a longer time scale than the first 8 years of Mrs Thatcher's premiership it should be possible to interpret the material collected. (SJK)