Abstract

Part 1 The office of permanent secretary: origins and development of the office of permanent secretary advising Ministers running a department accounting to Parliament a day in the life - permanent secretaries at work. Part 2 Permanent secretaries past and present - a profile: a changing social and educational elite reaching the summit - many are called, few are chosen. Part 3 Permanent secretaries in Whitehall - career patterns: an insular order? Permanent secretaries and the outside world the dance of the mandarins - interdepartmental mobility within Whitehall strangers in paradise? Permanent secretaries, ministers and their departments. Part 4 Permanent secretaries and the state: permanent secretaries and the performance of government permanent secretaries and the constitution.

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