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The Remaking of British Administrative Culture

Why Whitehall can't Go Home Again

Indiana University

This article analyzes the basis and success of Margaret Thatcher's attempts to shape the senior British civil service into a responsive instrument of policy implementation from the standpoint of her political values. It also considers some key questions affecting the roles of civil servants in the post-Thatcher period. Emphasis is given to efforts to alter roles and attitudes in four central areas: deprivileging, reorganization, managerialism, and politicization. Although granting that Thatcherism has not succeeded in transforming all elements of traditional Whitehall culture, it is argued that for a number of reasons Thatcher's actions have erected formidable barriers to any hoped—for return to the heyday of the British mandarin or to the attitudes associated with it.

Administration & Society, Vol. 24, No. 2, 163-181 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/009539979202400204


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