The Blair Government and the Core Executive

Government and Opposition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Burch, Martin ^a   Holliday, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 10744233266     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0017-257x.2004.00029.x     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Ian Holliday acknowledges research funding from a City University of Hong Kong strategic research grant. We are grateful to the ministers, advisers and civil servants who talked to us about changes in the UK core executive since 1997. We thank an anonymous reviewer for constructive criticism. The usual disclaimer applies.
2. M. Foley, The British Presidency: Tony Blair and the Politics of Public Leadership, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000.
3. M. Burch and I. Holliday, The British Cabinet System, London, Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996, chs 1 and 2.
4. J. Naughtie, The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage, London, Fourth Estate, 2001.
5. M. Burch and I. Holliday, 'The Prime Minister's and Cabinet Offices: An Executive Office in All But Name', Parliamentary Affairs, 52 (1999), pp. 32-45.
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9. Burch and Holliday, British Cabinet System, op. cit., p. 1.
10. J. Wakeham, 'Cabinet Government', Contemporary Record, 8 (1994), pp. 473-83.
11. For a detailed analysis of the changing nature of the core executive since 1916, and the cumulative nature of its development, see Burch and Holliday, British Cabinet System, op. cit., chs 1-5.
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14. Burch and Holliday, British Cabinet System, op. cit., ch. 5.
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17. Burch and Holliday, British Cabinet System, op. cit., pp. 56-60.
18. Burch and Holliday, 'The Prime Minister's and Cabinet Offices', op. cit.
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20. Sir Andrew Turnbull, 'Reform and Delivery in the Civil Service', London, Cabinet Office, 2002. Accessed 23 December 2002 at www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/2002/news/020624_ newciv.html.
21. The figures come from the Cabinet Office. See also Kavanagh, 'New Labour, New Millennium', op. cit., p. 13, which has a figure of 200 PMO staff for 2000.
22. A. Blair, Prim Minister's Speech on Public Service Reform. London, Prime Minister's Office, 2001. Accessed 23 December 2002 at www.pm.gov.uk/print/page3626.asp.
23. B. G. Peters, R. A. W. Rhodes and V. Wright (eds), Administering the Summit, London, Macmillan, 2000.
24. Naughtie, The Rivals, op. cit.
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