Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK and Boston, USA
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Public administration
81 (2003), S. 0
ISSN:
1467-9299
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Political Science
,
Economics
Notes:
On the walls of my private office hang the photographs of my seven distinguished predecessors as Secretary of the Cabinet. I sometimes find myself staring at them for inspiration, not always successfully I admit.A week or two ago I found myself looking at the great Lord Bridges, Secretary of the Cabinet and War Cabinet from 1938 to 1946. I wondered what he would have made of it if in the space of a week one of his predecessors had published an article in The Spectator advertised as ‘The Descent of the Civil Servant’ and another had appeared on the Frost programme to reassure the world that the Service was still in good shape.Both predecessors, Lords Butler and Armstrong, I hasten to say, were acting in the most supportive spirit and spoke from what for all of us is a deeply shared view of the role of the Civil Service. But, staring at Bridges, I could see a bubble emerging from his mouth enquiring: what precisely is happening on your watch, Sir Richard?
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00351
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