Transforming British Government

CHRISTOPHER BRADY Director of Studies for the General and Strategic Management MBA, City University Business School SIMON BUTLER Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Manchester MARTIN BURCH Director of the Graduate Centre and Senior Lecturer in Government, University of Manchester JUNE BURNHAM Senior Lecturer in European Government, Middlesex University PETER CATTERALL Director of the Institute of Contemporary British History and Lecturer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London CHRISTOPHER CLIFFORD was Senior Research Officer on the 'History of the Organisation of Central Government Departments', 1995-97 TERENCE DAINTITH Dean of the School of Advanced Study, University of London PATRICIA DAY Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Bath University NEIL ELDER Reader Emeritus, University of Hull CHRISTOPHER HOOD Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, London School of Economics BRAIN HOGWOOD Professor of Politics, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde OLIVER JAMES Lecturer in Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Politics, University of Exeter GEORGE JONES Professor of Government, London School of Economics DAVID JUDGE Professor of Politics, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde RUDOLPH KLEIN Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Senior Associate of the King's Fund RODNEY LOWE Professor of Contemporary History, University of Bristol IAIN MCLEAN Professor of Politics, Oxford University and Official Fellow of Nuffield College ALISTAIR MCMILLAN doctoral student, Nuffield College, Oxford MURRAY MCVICAR Senior Research Specialist, Scottish Parliament Information Centre ALAN PAGE Professor of Public Law, University of Dundee EDWARD PAGE Professor of Politics, University of Hull ASTRID RINGE research assistant, University of Bristol NEIL ROLLINGS Senior Lecturer in Economic History, University of Bristol and Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi, University of Japan COLIN SCOTT Senior Lecturer in Law and member of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics MARTIN SMITH Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield TONY TRAVERS Director of Research, Greater London Group, London School of Economics

These two volumes have one simple objective - to provide a summary of the key findings of all the projects on the Economic and Social Research Council's Whitehall Programme.These two volumes have one simple objective - to provide a summary of the key findings of all the projects on the Economic and Social Research Council's Whitehall Programme. The Programme combined basic research on the evolution of British government with policy relevant research on contemporary practice in Britain and Europe. Volume 1 surveys the main constitutional changes. Volume 2 examines the changing roles and relationships of the Prime Minister, ministers and civil servants. Edited by Rod Rhodes and written by a team of distinguished political scientists and historians these volumes provide an authoritative account of how British government has changed over the past fifty years.