Ministries And The Civil Service Flashcards
Roles of civil service
Advice ministers
Enact ministers wishes
What is a civil servant?
A servant of the crown
How many civil servants?
450,000
What are mandarins
Senior civil servants
Theskstones 4 models?
(1999) Adversarial model Traditional model Whitehall community model The public choice model
What is the adversarial model?
Power struggle
Civil service wants to maintain the status quo
Richard crossman “I realise the tremendous effort it requires not to be overtaken by the civil service”
What is the traditional model?
Civil service advices
Minister decides
Civil service carries out minister wishes
What is the Whitehall community model?
Idea that they work together
Mutual interest- same goal
Both Benefit if department done well
What is the public choice model?
Conflict- civil service want big departments and big budgets
Margret thatcher rolling back the state
The UK is ruled by civil sevice?
Permanence- dept of 11 perm secs and 27 secs of state
Loaded advice- summary sheets, battle of boxes
Ministers are outnumbered
Adversarial model- art of delay
Not ruled by civil service?
Traditional model
Community model
Erosion of permanence- gus o’donnel removed
Rise of spad and influence of think tanks
What is the civil service
The bureaucracy of the government
