Everyday Life in a Ministry; public administration as Anthropology

dc.contributor.authorRhodes, Roderick
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:28:28Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.updated2015-12-09T09:47:45Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.issn0275-0740
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/54482
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.sourceAmerican Review of Public Administration
dc.subjectKeywords: British government; Ethnography; Ministers; Permanent secretaries
dc.titleEveryday Life in a Ministry; public administration as Anthropology
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage23
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.contributor.affiliationRhodes, Roderick, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidRhodes, Roderick, u4053827
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor160608 - New Zealand Government and Politics
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub302
local.identifier.citationvolume20
local.identifier.doi10.1177/0275074004271716
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-13844254305
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local.type.statusPublished Version

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