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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Rhodes, R.A.W. |
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Everyday life in a ministry: public administration as anthropology |
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2005 |
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p.3-25. |
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Mar |
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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 describe 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, nonparticpant observation, and research on the powerful. - Reproduced. |
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Ethnography |
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Anthropology |
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Public administration |
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American Review of Public Administration |
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