Government and Expertise
Subtitle: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 18601919
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 30, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521304283
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Great Britain; History / Great Britain; History; 1901-1936; Civil service; Officials and employees; Politics and government; Public Administration
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.