Prospects for the public service in Britain: Major to the resense
- 24(4), Jan-Mar 1993, p.273-93
The most comprehensive inquiry into the higher civil service in Britain in recent years was conducted by the Fulton Committee Weber stressed, such officials often require a high level of training and expertise to accomplish their work and are distinguishablefrom politicians, who generally lack such training and expertise. Thus the modern civil service exists, to enable politicians to carry out the tasks of the modern state that would, because of their number, scale and complexity otherwise be beyond the capacity of politician to perform. But in Britain Senior Civil Servants not only manage the machinery of govt. and supply technical advice, but also carry out policy analysis and draft policy proposal that are i