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Transforming Government

By: Martin J. Smith

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Paperback | 20 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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280 Pages

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In this new text Martin Smith rejects simplistic notions of power as a fixed attribute of individual people and institutions, and demonstrates that it is much more fluid and dependent on changing structures, relationships, contexts and actions. Power is not an object that 'belongs to' cabinets or prime ministers or is inherent in the organisation of government departments. If we want to understand the operations of the core executive, the author argues, we have to trace the structures of dependency within the central state, how actors and institutions exchange resources and what tactics are deployed to achieve goals.
Using documents, memoirs and interviews, Martin Smith provides a systematic new framework for the analysis of central government that will be essential reading for all students and practitioners of British politics.

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'Smith takes the present-day analysis of the British executive out of the academic journals and makes it accessible to a larger audience for the first time. I expect the book to change the way in which we discuss the power of the British executive. Gone forever are the hoary old cliches of prime ministerial power, replaced by a recognition that power is everywhere and understood through the language of dependence, networks, governance and choice.' - R.A.W. Rhodes

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