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Everyday Life in a Ministry: Public Administration as Anthropology
Citation
Rhodes, RAW, Everyday Life in a Ministry: Public Administration as Anthropology, American Review of Public Administration, 35, (1) pp. 3-25. ISSN 0275-0740 (2005) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/0275074004271716
Abstract
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 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.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | ethnography • British government • ministers • permanent secretaries |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Policy and administration |
Research Field: | Public administration |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Government and politics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Rhodes, RAW (Professor Rod Rhodes) |
ID Code: | 58620 |
Year Published: | 2005 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 55 |
Deposited By: | Government |
Deposited On: | 2009-10-16 |
Last Modified: | 2012-03-30 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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