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By Simon James
This reader offers over seventy case stories of coverage making in Whitehall and Westminster, combining newspaper insurance, reliable files, educational research and the reminiscences of individuals. Simon James demonstrates a number of the ways that coverage originates, how it is formed inside Whitehall, the several modes of parliamentary regulate, and the issues of implementation and coverage assessment. He illustrates civil servants' half in constructing coverage, ministers' kin with their departments and their colleagues, and the position of the major minister and cupboard. Case reports support to envision cupboard committees, the impression of strain teams and choose committees in addition to the results of self reliant inquiries, the impression of the eu group and the restraining strength of parliament and the courts. The case experiences variety from nationwide controversies equivalent to the pits closure main issue and the "Satanic Verses" affair, via to the hidden aspect of coverage making together with offers struck with strain teams in Whitehall convention and wrangling in Brussels over the tax on whisky. Designed as a textbook for A-level scholars and undergraduates, "Policy Making within the British govt" presents a huge diversity of resource fabric and research that may be of price to scholars of British politics, coverage making and political associations.
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4) Lastly there is decision-taking. There’s a whole mass of routine decisions, departmental decisions, decisions which are not to do with politics, and which have to be taken regularly and quickly. Therefore, a Minister who is available to give a decision in twenty-four hours is essential to a Ministry. …The greatest danger for a radical Minister is to get too much going in his Department. Because, you see, Departments are resistant. Departments know that they last and you don’t. Departments know that any day you may be moved somewhere else and they can forget you.
I know there are people who believe you can achieve things in Whitehall without a battle with your Department. Well, it hasn’t been my experience, and a very good thing too. If I want to change something and they have got their own departmental policy, they are bound to say, ‘Look, before we are going to change our departmental mind for a temporary Minister, he must show that he really means The actors 27 it. ’ There must be a fight and a triumph. 4 What purpose do ministers serve? Few politicians seem to step aside momentarily from political life to consider the precise purpose of a minister in a government department.
1 The actors The first chapter of this book introduces the main participants in Whitehall policy making: the civil service, whose role has come under question in recent years; ministers and the Prime Minister; the cabinet and its committees where policy conflicts are played out; the institutions of the European Union, which have come to influence so greatly policy making in Britain; and the various types of interest and pressure groups that cluster round central government attempting to influence its decisions.