The Whitehall Reader Book

	Introduction and acknowledgements
1	Introductory essay: Whitehall since the Fulton Report	1
2	The Whitehall machine: structure and process	21
2.1	The structure and organization of Whitehall	23
2.2	The architecture of the British central state	26
2.3	The Whitehall village	35
2.4	The private government of public money revisited	41
2.5	Policy community and policy network	49
3	Civil servants and ministers: power, influence and public policy	59
3.1	Mandarin power	61
3.2	Where there's a will	68
3.3	Policy making in the Home Office	72
3.4	Whitehall under one party rule	75
3.5	Mandarins and ministers: a former official's view	79
3.6	Good piano won't play bad music	86
3.7	Politicizing the civil service	92
3.8	The consequences of the career politician	96
3.9	Steering the ship of state	103
4	Loyalties, responsibilities and ethics	111
4.1	The Armstrong Memorandum	113
4.2	A higher duty?	118
4.3	T.H. Green and the ethics of senior officials	121
4.4	A Civil Service Code	130
4.5	The civil servant's duty	132
4.6	Public duty and public interest	137
5	Reforming Whitehall I: hopes, visions and landmarks	145
5.1	The new public management	148
5.2	The Next Steps	152
5.3	The Citizen's Charter	156
5.4	Competing for quality	159
5.5	Reinventing government	165
5.6	The future of the civil service	171
5.7	The new public service	178
6	Reforming Whitehall II: the critics have their say	185
6.1	The end of the civil service?	187
6.2	So farewell then, citizen servant!	192
6.3	A threat to democracy?	195
6.4	Executive agencies and public administration theory	198
6.5	Reinventing government - but will it work?	202
6.6	Beyond Next Steps: obstacles to fulfilment	209
6.7	How to reinvent government	216
7	Civil servants, Parliament and the public	221
7.1	The Osmotherly Rules (Revised)	223
7.2	Critics of the Osmotherly Rules	230
7.3	The working of the select committees	234
7.4	Select committees - a view from a witness	239
7.5	Inside the new civil service	243
7.6	Open government	247
7.7	Making the civil service more accountable	253
7.8	Commonwealth of Britain Bill	257
8	Select annotated bibliography	261
	Bibliography	275
	Index	288