Bureaucratic Elites in Western European States

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829446-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Bureaucratic Elites in West European States provides valuable information about the structures and composition of the higher civil service and its position in the political structure through a comparative analysis of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden. The book explores how higher civil service has developed in the light of the massive changes in European societies in the past thirty years. Changes include the size of the top level of the civil service, the growing social diversity of its ranks and well as the tendency to recruit from outside the civil service. The book also examines how wider social changes, such as the democratisation of education, the growth of interest groups, and the increasing importance of the European Union impact on the higher levels of bureaucracy producing similar patterns of change throughout Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Page, Edward C.

Wright, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Öffentlicher Dienst, Öffentlicher Sektor
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Public Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- A Description of the Greek Higher Civil Service

- Spain: Still the Primacy of Corporatism?

- Italy's Senior Civil Service: An Ossified World

- The Senior Civil Service in France

- Senior Officials in Austria

- The Senior Civil Service in Belgium

- Senior Officials in the German Federal Administration: Institutional Change and Positional Differentiation

- The British Senior Civil Service

- The Senior Civil Service in The Netherlands: A Quest for Unity

- Senior Officials in the Danish Central Administration: From Bureaucrats to Policy Professionals and Managers

- The Welfare State Managers: Senior Civil Servants in Sweden

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Charles Page is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull

Vincent Wright is Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University