Government and Expertise
Subtitle: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 18601919
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780521534505
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; History; History - General History; British Isles; USA; Western Continental Europe; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: The much discussed 'generalist' tradition of public service in Britain, deriving from the belief that recruits entering the upper ranks of the civil service should have had an all-round university education in liberal-arts disciplines, was consolidated in the wake of the Northcote Trevelyan Report of 1854, but condemned more than a century later by the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service.