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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Understanding Power: Traditional Approaches -- The power debate -- Pluralism -- Rational choice theory -- Conclusion -- 2 Understanding Power: Radical Approaches -- The other dimensions of power -- Power: luck or structure? -- Power and structure -- Poststructuralism and the defacing of power -- Conclusion -- 3 The State and Power -- The liberal perspective: pluralism and rational choice -- Rational choice theory and state power -- Elitism and neo-Weberian approaches to state power -- Radical approaches to state power -- Conclusion -- 4 A Framework for Analysing Power and the State -- Power, capacity and agents -- A framework for understanding power -- Conclusion -- 5 The Development of the State from Modernity to Pastmodernity -- The development of the modern and pastmodern state -- From extensive to intensive to fragmented power -- Postmodern delivery -- The partiality of the modern state -- Conclusion -- 6 Legitimacy, Authority and Bureaucracy -- Legitimacy and the liberal state -- The modern state: bureaucracy, authority and force -- The problem of authority -- Nationalism and legitimacy -- Fear, trust and authority -- Conclusion -- 7 Force and Terror -- Force and terror in authoritarian regimes -- From force to terror -- The problem of totalitarianism -- Using force and terror in 'democratic' regimes -- Conclusion -- 8 Rationality and Regulation -- Rational choice ontology and incentives -- Principal-agent theory -- Incentives and public policy -- Regulation and choice -- Conclusion -- 9 Surveillance -- Developing surveillance -- The implications of surveillance -- Conclusion -- 10 Risk -- Understanding the dimensions of risk -- Risk and government -- Analysing risk in politics -- Implicit with risk is a notion of power.

Tsars are increasingly being used in government to coordinate policy, to deal with complex problems and to implement government goals. However, there is almost no extant literature on the role of tsars who occupy a curious position in Britain's constitutional framework. The aim of this article is to examine the role and impact of tsars. The article attempts to define tsars and examines the extent to which they are bureaucratic entrepreneurs. Focusing on tsars in the Department of Health, where they have been most systematically used, the article examines the resources that they have to shape policy outcomes. The article highlights the way in which leadership is being used to fill in the holes created by new forms of governance.

Much of the analysis of intelligence and security in British government has treated it as a separate and distinct sphere. This article argues that the core executive framework provides a useful mechanism for integrating security policy making with other aspects of the domestic policy process. The article analyses the changing nature of the core executive and its impact on decision-making. The article argues that if we look at intelligence through the core executive framework we can analyse intelligence as a particular form of knowledge that can provide the Prime Minister with considerable influence on policy outcomes. This is not, however, to suggest that the Prime Minister is presidential.