Bureaucratic Elites in Western European States [Paperback]

This collection provides valuable information about the structures and composition of the higher civil service and its position in the political structure through a comparative analysis of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden. The book explores how higher civil service has developed in the light of the massive changes in European societies in the past thirty years.

Introduction,Ed Page and Vincent Wright
A Description of the Greek Higher Civil Service,Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos
Spain: Still the Primacy of Corporatism?,Ignacio Molina ?lvarez de Cienfuegos
Italy's Senior Civil Service: An Ossified World,Sabino Cassese
The Senior Civil Service in France,Luc Rouban
Senior Officials in Austria,Barbara Liegl and Wolfgang C. M?ller
The Senior Civil Service in Belgium,Marleen Brans and Annie Hondeghem
Senior Officials in the German Federal Administration: Institutional Change and Positional Differentiation,Klaus H. Goetz
The British Senior Civil Service,Charlotte Dargie and Rachel Locke
The Senior Civil Service in The Netherlands: A Quest for Unity,Frits M. van der Meer and Jos C. N. Raadschelders
Senior Officials in the Danish Central Administration: From Bureaucrats to Policy Professionals and Managers,Hanne Nex? Jensen
The Welfare State Managers: Senior Civil Servants in Sweden,Jon Pierre and Peter Ehn
Conclusion. Ed Page and Vincent Wright
Conclusion,Ed Page and Vincent Wright

Edward Charles Page is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull

Vincent Wright is Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University