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Whitehall’s Elite of the Elite - David Richards: The Civil Service under the Conservatives 1979–1997, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 1997, 288 pp., £14.95
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2 These are public sector agencies which have been hived off from the core departments to implement policies. Each signs a ‘framework agreement’ which sets targets for policy implementation with their ‘parent’ departments, but management exists as a separate entity.
3 Thus about similar issues to the better titled Plowden, W., Ministers and Mandarins, London, Institute for Public Policy Research, 1994 Google Scholar; and Barberis, Peter, The Elite of the Elite, Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1996.Google ScholarPubMed
4 Plowden, Ministers and Mandarins.
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