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100			_aRhodes, R.A.W.
245			_aEveryday life in a ministry: public administration as anthropology
260			_c2005
300			_ap.3-25.
362			_aMar
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aEthnography
650			_aAnthropology
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a65242
999			_c65242 _d65242