Theakston, K orcid.org/0000-0002-9939-7516 (2020) The British Labour Party and the Civil Service in the Twentieth Century. In: Fulla, M and Lazar, M, (eds.) European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements . Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 129-148. ISBN 978-3-030-41539-6
Abstract
The dominance of a centralist and statist approach in the British Labour Party’s political thinking and practice in the twentieth century gave a vital role to the civil service and the Whitehall bureaucratic machine in the transformation of society and the achievement of socialism. However, Labour has generally not paid much serious or sustained attention to the civil service and the Whitehall machine. Certain lines of criticism of civil service organisation, management, power and accountability recur through the party’s history, together with proposals for reform. In practice, however, Labour governments made only patchy progress towards the implementation of Whitehall reforms from the 1920s through to the 1970s.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2017 12:41 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2023 11:55 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Series Name: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-41540-2_8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125439 |