Is the British state hollowing out?

Political Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 167-176

  Holliday, Ian ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0034164964     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00291     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. 1 R. A. W. Rhodes, 'The Hollowing Out of the State: The Changing Nature of the Public Service in Britain', Political Quarterly, 1994, pp. 138-51 at pp. 151, 139, 149.
2. 2 Michael Saward, 'In Search of the Hollow Crown', in Patrick Weller, Herman Bakvis and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 16-36.
3. 3 R. A. W. Rhodes, '"Shackling the Leader?", Coherence, Capacity and the Hollow Crown', in Weller et al., The Hollow Crown, pp. 198-223.
4. 4 Martin Burch and Ian Holliday, The British Cabinet System, Hemel Hempstead, Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996; Martin Burch and Ian Holliday, 'The Prime Minister's and Cabinet Offices: An Executive Office in All But Name', Parliamentary Affairs, 1999, pp. 32-45.
5. 4 Martin Burch and Ian Holliday, The British Cabinet System, Hemel Hempstead, Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996; Martin Burch and Ian Holliday, 'The Prime Minister's and Cabinet Offices: An Executive Office in All But Name', Parliamentary Affairs, 1999, pp. 32-45.
6. 5 R. A. W. Rhodes, Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1997, p. 3. See also David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1992.
7. 5 R. A. W. Rhodes, Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1997, p. 3. See also David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, Implementing Thatcherite Policies: Audit of an Era, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1992.
8. 6 The key phrase is taken from Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, London, Verso, 1983. Berman took it from Marx.
9. 7 Patrick Dunleavy and R. A. W. Rhodes, 'Core Executive Studies in Britain', Public Administration, 1990, pp. 3-28 at p. 4. For a slightly different formulation, see R. A. W. Rhodes, 'From Prime Ministerial Power to Core Executive', in R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy, eds, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive, London, Macmillan, 1995, pp. 11-37 at p. 12.
10. 7 Patrick Dunleavy and R. A. W. Rhodes, 'Core Executive Studies in Britain', Public Administration, 1990, pp. 3-28 at p. 4. For a slightly different formulation, see R. A. W. Rhodes, 'From Prime Ministerial Power to Core Executive', in R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy, eds, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive, London, Macmillan, 1995, pp. 11-37 at p. 12.
11. 8 Burch and Holliday, British Cabinet System, p. 1.
12. 9 Ibid., pp. 28, 33; Cabinet Office page on the Government Information Service website, http://www.open.gov.uk/.
13. 10 G. W. Jones, 'The Prime Minister's Aides', in Anthony King, ed., The British Prime Minister, 2nd edn, London, Macmillan, 1985, pp. 72-95 at p. 73; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, 'Ministers and the Role of the Prime Ministerial Staff', in Jean Blondel and Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, eds, Governing Together: The Extent and Limits of Joint Decision-Making in Western European Cabinets, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1993, pp. 131-52 at 134-5.
14. 10 G. W. Jones, 'The Prime Minister's Aides', in Anthony King, ed., The British Prime Minister, 2nd edn, London, Macmillan, 1985, pp. 72-95 at p. 73; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, 'Ministers and the Role of the Prime Ministerial Staff', in Jean Blondel and Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, eds, Governing Together: The Extent and Limits of Joint Decision-Making in Western European Cabinets, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1993, pp. 131-52 at 134-5.
15. 11 A full analysis as of the mid-1990s may be found in Burch and Holliday, British Cabinet System, chs 5, 6. Up-to-date information may be found on the Cabinet Office web page.
16. 12 Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996; Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a Global Era, Cambridge, Polity, 1998.
17. 12 Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996; Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a Global Era, Cambridge, Polity, 1998.