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Online-Ressource (304 pages)
ISBN:
9781849465601
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This book is the most detailed study yet carried out of special advisers. The Constitution Unit's research team, led by Dr Ben Yong and Professor Robert Hazell, assembled a comprehensive database of over 600 special advisers since 1979
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Why Study Special Advisers?; I. FOUR KEY QUESTIONS; II. SPECIAL ADVISERS: A DEFINITION; III. METHODOLOGY; IV. TERMINOLOGY; V. THE OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; 2 Special Advisers and British Government; I. MINISTERS, SPECIAL ADVISERS AND WHITEHALL; A. The Introduction of Special Advisers; B. Excursus: The Changing Centre, 1979-2013; C. The Slow Institutionalisation of Special Advisers; II. THEORY; III. CONCLUSION; 3 Who are Special Advisers?; INTRODUCTION; I. SPECIAL ADVISERS: A BRIEF PORTRAIT, 1979-2013
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A. Numbers of Special AdvisersB. Basic Characteristics; C. Tenure, Ministers and Departments; II. RECRUITMENT: STRUCTURES AND FACTORS UNDERLYING SELECTION; A. Entering Government; B. In Government; C. Other Structural Factors Impacting on Recruitment; CONCLUSION; 4 What Special Advisers Do for Ministers; INTRODUCTION; I. WHY MINISTERS NEED ASSISTANCE; II. SUSPICION AND TRUST; III. ADDITIONAL EXPERTISE; IV. OVERLOAD; V. POLICY DELIVERY AND PROGRESS CHASING; VI. THE WORK OF DEPARTMENTAL SPECIAL ADVISERS; VII. VALUE ADDED; VIII. POWER AND INFLUENCE
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IX. SPECIAL ADVISERS AT THE CENTRE OF GOVERNMENTA. Overload; B. Setting the Government's Direction; C. Step Change: Strategy, Delivery and Media; D. Variable Geometry; E. Finding the Right Levers; F. Ways of Working; G. Quality, Power and Risks; H. Overall Assessment; X. CONCLUSIONS; 5 Special Advisers and the Policy-Making Process; INTRODUCTION; I. OFFICIALS AND SPECIAL ADVISERS: THEIR RESPECTIVE ROLES IN POLICY MAKING; II. HOW WELL DO SPECIAL ADVISERS WORK WITH CIVIL SERVANTS IN POLICY MAKING?; A. Overall views; III. WHERE DO SPECIAL ADVISERS ADD REAL VALUE TO THE WORK OF OFFICIALS?
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IV. INTERACTION WITH THE CENTREV. THIRD-PARTY CONTACTS IN POLICY MAKING; VI. SOME SPECIFIC ISSUES IN THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS; A. Special Advisers and Access to Ministers; B. Do Special Advisers Prevent or Promote the Politicisation of the Civil Service?; C. More Haste, Less Speed; D. Inexperience; VII. SOME CONCLUSIONS; A. Do Special Advisers Add Real Value to Policy Making in Whitehall?; B. But What are the Problems?; VIII. MOVING FORWARD; 6 Special Advisers and Communications; INTRODUCTION; I. MEDIA ADVISERS: WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY DO?; A. Strategy…; B. … and Tactics
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II. GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS: THE ORIGINS OF 'SPIN DOCTORS'III. THE CAMPBELL REVOLUTION; IV. MEDIA ADVISERS AND THE COALITION; V. SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; 7 The Regulation, Accountabilities and Responsibilities of Special Advisers; INTRODUCTION; I. SPECIAL ADVISERS: A DISCIPLINARY PROBLEM?; II. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND REGULATORY CONTEXT; III. ACCOUNTABILITY: THEORY AND PRACTICE; IV. POLICING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SPECIAL ADVISERS AND CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS: POLITICISATION AND THE CAP; V. RESPONSIBILITY FOR EFFECTIVENESS: JOB DESCRIPTIONS, INDUCTION AND TRAINING; VI. CONCLUSION
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8 The Comparative Experience of Political Staff: Westminster Jurisdictions and Ministerial Cabinets
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Additional Edition:
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Special Advisers, : Who they are, what they do and why they matter
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