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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Workshop Participants -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Corruption in Local Government - some ethical issues of the last twenty-five years -- 3 Parliament and Ethical Behaviour -- 4 The Ethics of Equal Opportunities -- 5 Courts, Parliament, and Public Authorities under the British Human Rights Act 1998 -- 6 The Public Interest: A Political and Administrative Convenience? -- 7 Setting Standards in a New Organization: The Case of the British Civil Service Commission -- 8 The Inherently Unethical Nature of Public Service Ethics -- 9 Is Democracy a Substitute for Ethics? Administrative Reform and Accountability -- 10 Democratic Accountability and Models of Governance: Purchaser/Provider, Owner/Trustee -- 11 Contracting, the Enterprise Culture and Public Sector Ethics -- 12 Between Autonomy and Accountability: Hong Kong's Senior Civil Servants in Search of an Identity -- 13 Ethics, Governance, and Constitutions: The Case of Baron Haussmann -- 14 Ethics in Public Service for the New Millennium -- Index.

First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil Service Selection Board which was the key institution in the pioneering new approach to personnel selection initiated in Britain after the Second World War. It has been regarded as the model for personnel recruitment in other contexts and for civil service recruitment in other countries.The book raises f

First published in 1984, this book examines the style of leadership amongst senior civil servants and its impact on administrative reform by investigating the work of Sir Percival Waterfield who was First Civil Service Commissioner from 1939 to 1951. He was responsible for setting up the Civil Service Selection Board which was the key institution in the pioneering new approach to personnel selection initiated in Britain after the Second World War. It has been regarded as the model for personnel recruitment in other contexts and for civil service recruitment in other countries. The boo.

This article is a narrative exploring the topic of self-advocacy and self-determination for individuals with disabilities. Through my narrative, I explore ways that we can increase expectations of individuals with disabilities.

This article is the result of research into public records in The National Archives; the Royal Institute of Public Administration archives in the University of Birmingham; the Joint University Council archives in the University of Warwick; and (with the kind assistance of Adrian Allan, Archivist, University of Liverpool) the papers of Professor Lord Simey of Toxteth. Its main purpose is to contribute to the history of the applied social sciences through tracing the background and development of Public Policy and Administration. Constraints of length and problems associated with the largely uncatalogued archives of the Joint University Council and the incomplete records of the Royal Institute of Public Administration prevent a full and comprehensive history of the topics covered, so it has to be selective (hence 'an interpretation'), and the intention therefore has been to focus on the prehistory and history of influences contributing to the development of the Joint University Council, its Public Administration Committee and, especially, the journal Public Policy and Administration.

THE POLITICS OF DECLINE: AN INTERPRETATION OF BRITISH POLITICS FROM THE 1940s TO THE 1970s


Geoffrey K. Fry
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 307 pp., £55 (hb) ISBN: 0333726227