Bureaucrats and Leadership

JANE BURNHAM Senior Lecturer in European Government, Middlesex University and Research Assistant, London School of Economics GEOFFREY K.FRY Professor of British Government and Administration, University of Leeds STEVEN HARRISON Reader in Health Policy and Politics, University of Leeds KESTER ISAAC-HENRY Principal Lecturer, Department of Public Policy, University of Central England, Birmingham GEORGE W. JONES Professor of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science CHRISTOPHER LORD Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Leeds ELIZABETH MELLON Teaching Fellow, Department of Organizational Behaviour and Director of the Senior Executive Programme and the Global Consortium, London Business School NORMA M. RICCUCCI Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College, University of Albany, State University of New York DAVID RICHARDS Lecturer in Politics, University of Liverpool GERALD WISTOW Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds

The book uses a biographical approach to analyse the potential for, forms of, and constraints upon bureaucratic leadership in modern government.The book uses a biographical approach to analyse the potential for, forms of, and constraints upon bureaucratic leadership in modern government. Case studies, written by experts in the different fields, assess the impact of particular officials operating in Whitehall, the United States federal government, the health service, local government, and Europe. The book brings together an innovative methodology with a wide policy coverage.