William Armstrong and British Policy Making

• Main Authors: Theakston, Kevin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Connelly, Philip (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Understanding Governance
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.                                                                                                                  .