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008			180718b2011 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aBellamy, Christine
245			_aThe Whitehall programme and after: Researching government in time of governance
260			_c2011
300			_ap.78-92.
520			_aThe article revisits the Whitehall Programme and Rod Rhodes' crucial role in setting it up. It examines the research commissioned for the Programme and how research in this field has changed since the mid 1990s. It confirms that research on Whitehall has become more diverse and specialist - reflecting its apparent hollowing-out - but that research employing a longer historical perspective does not support an interpretation that government in the UK was every strongly filled-in. It also suggests that the study of Whitehall now demonstrates more theoretical ambition than hitherto, and, in the light of the dominance of qualitative research in this field, calls for a more sophisticated methodological debate about qualitative approaches to the study of government and especially their potential contribution to theory-building. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aPublic Administration
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909			_a92060
999			_c92060 _d92060