An exploration of the roles and workings of the heads of government departments in six nations: departmental secretaries in Australia, departmentschefs in Denmark, directeurs d'administration in France, secretaris-generaal in The Netherlands, chief executives in New Zealand, and permanent secretaries in the UK. It also seeks to explore their infinite variety by showing how inherited government traditions shape the response to reform. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This book argues that the World Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff.