Product Description: Volumes of influence explores the work of a number of important books and key writers within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark or classic books in politics and international relations, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant role in the development of these disciplines, who defined their subjects, set agendas and inspired...read more

Product Description: A detailed account of Churchill's constitutional thinking and of his impact on the British constitution during the longest and most extraordinary political career in 20th-century Britain.

Product Description: This book uses a biographical approach to analyze the potential for, forms of, and constraints upon bureaucratic leadership in modern government. Case studies, written by experts in different fields, assess the impact of particular officials operating in Whitehall, the United States Federal government, the health service, local government, and Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An entertaining and authoritative study of leadership in the British civil service from one of the top authors in the field. Kevin Theakston draws the lessons of how change in central government can be managed and implemented from a series of biographical studies of the acknowledged leaders in the civil service in the 19th and 20th centuries - from Charles Trevelyan, the founder of the modern civil service, to modern Mandarins such as Robert Armstrong and Margaret Thatcher's personal adviser the outsider Sir Derek Rayner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study provides an overview of the development of the Civil Service since World War II. Adopting a broad, historical approach, it assesses the changes in organization, structure and management of the Whitehall machine, alongside the continuities in the policy and practice of public administration...read more

Product Description: In this controversial work, Kevin Theakston examines the "Yes Minister"-style accounts of civil service obstruction to Labour government policies popularized by Tony Benn and Richard Crossman. He argues that in fact Labour's problems and failures in office are largely political in origin...read more

Product Description: Based on interviews with almost 60 ministers and civil servants from recent governments, the book examines the careers of junior ministers, their work in Parliament, their contribution to policy-making and their role on Cabinet committees...read more