KEVIN THEAKSTON is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds and the author of Junior Ministers in British Government, The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service in 1945. He is among the best known writers on the British Civil Service. This book arises from his research for the ESRC Whitehall Programme. His accompanying edited volume on Bureaucrats and Leadership covering Britain, Europe and the United States will also be published in the Transforming Government series.

Theakston shows that individual actors matter, and they can have significant impact...but his writing is informative and stimulating: indeed, the book is that rarity in academic publications - an enjoyable read!' - Robert Pyper, Parliamentary Affairs

• Acknowledgments Introduction Charles Trevelyan Warren Fisher Edward Bridges Norman Brook Evelyn Sharp 'Otto' Clarke William Armstrong Robert Armstrong Derek Rayner Conclusion

KEVIN THEAKSTON is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds and the author of Junior Ministers in British Government, The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service in 1945. He is among the best known writers on the British Civil Service. This book arises from his research for the ESRC Whitehall Programme. His accompanying edited volume on Bureaucrats and Leadership covering Britain, Europe and the United States will also be published in the Transforming Government series.

Theakston shows that individual actors matter, and they can have significant impact...but his writing is informative and stimulating: indeed, the book is that rarity in academic publications - an enjoyable read!' - Robert Pyper, Parliamentary Affairs

• Acknowledgments Introduction Charles Trevelyan Warren Fisher Edward Bridges Norman Brook Evelyn Sharp 'Otto' Clarke William Armstrong Robert Armstrong Derek Rayner Conclusion

KEVIN THEAKSTON is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds and the author of Junior Ministers in British Government, The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service in 1945. He is among the best known writers on the British Civil Service. This book arises from his research for the ESRC Whitehall Programme. His accompanying edited volume on Bureaucrats and Leadership covering Britain, Europe and the United States will also be published in the Transforming Government series.

Theakston shows that individual actors matter, and they can have significant impact...but his writing is informative and stimulating: indeed, the book is that rarity in academic publications - an enjoyable read!' - Robert Pyper, Parliamentary Affairs

• Acknowledgments Introduction Charles Trevelyan Warren Fisher Edward Bridges Norman Brook Evelyn Sharp 'Otto' Clarke William Armstrong Robert Armstrong Derek Rayner Conclusion