Literature in the Public Service [electronic resource] : Sublime Bureaucracy /
Sullivan, C.author.
How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of literature and bureaucracy dismisses Weber's 'neurocrat'. Milton, Trollope and Hare are case studies on implementing the 'what if' visions literature explored during a period of great change in public service.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Weber, Bureaucracy, and Creativity -- The 1650s: Milton and the Beginning of Civil Service -- The 1850s: Trollope and the Height of Civil Service Ambitions -- The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision -- Coda: Bureaucratic Creativity -- Bibliography -- Index.
How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of literature and bureaucracy dismisses Weber's 'neurocrat'. Milton, Trollope and Hare are case studies on implementing the 'what if' visions literature explored during a period of great change in public service.
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Hare, David, 1947-
Literature, Modern.
Political philosophy.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Political Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.