Everyday Life in a Ministry; public administration as Anthropology
dc.contributor.author | Rhodes, Roderick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-10T22:28:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-09T09:47:45Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This article seeks to answer two questions: What do we know about the work of ministers and permanent secretaries? How do we know what we know about ministers and permanent secretaries? To do so, it describes a research project on life at the top of British government departments and discusses the issues raised by trying to do research and write a political anthropology of the daily life of ministers and civil servants. The article has four sections. First, it surveys briefly the existing literature on ministers and top civil servants. Second, it describes the scope and methods of the project. Third, it reports some early findings. Finally, it reflects on the distinctive contribution of ethnographic research to understanding British government and the problems of elite interviewing, nonparticipant observation, and research on the powerful. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0275-0740 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/54482 | |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Inc | |
dc.source | American Review of Public Administration | |
dc.subject | Keywords: British government; Ethnography; Ministers; Permanent secretaries | |
dc.title | Everyday Life in a Ministry; public administration as Anthropology | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 23 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Rhodes, Roderick, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.authoremail | repository.admin@anu.edu.au | |
local.contributor.authoruid | Rhodes, Roderick, u4053827 | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160608 - New Zealand Government and Politics | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | MigratedxPub302 | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 20 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0275074004271716 | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-13844254305 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | Migrated | |
local.type.status | Published Version |
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