William Armstrong and British Policy Making

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Theakston, Kevin (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Connelly, Philip (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Understanding Governance
• Θέματα: Great Britain-Politics and government.; Public policy.; World politics.; Political science.; Legislative bodies.; British Politics.; Public Policy.; Political History.; Governance and Government.; Legislative and Executive Politics.

This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period. He was at the centre of the British government policy-makin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. William Armstrong: family background and education
• Chapter 3. Climbing the Whitehall ladder
• Chapter 4. Head of the Treasury 1962-68
• Chapter 5. Head of the Home Civil Service 1968-74
• Chapter 6. 'Deputy Prime Minister' under Heath
• Chapter 7. The Midland Bank years
• Chapter 8. William Armstrong: an assessment.                                                                                                                  .