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Ernest Gowers: Plain Words and Forgotten Deeds: Understanding Governance

Autor A. Scott
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 sep 2009
Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil servants. Gowers was highly influential in public policy throughout his long civil service career, which began in 1903 and culminated in running London's civil defence throughout the Second World War.
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ISBN-13: 9780230580251
ISBN-10: 0230580254
Pagini: 255
Ilustrații: XVIII, 255 p.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:2009
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Understanding Governance

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface Anatomy of a Victorian Family Education for Public Service Coping with Lloyd George WW1: Under Cover at Wellington House Influential Head of 'Enfeebled' Mines Department Quis Custodiet? – Surtax, Syntax and Scandal Mine Owners' Bogy Man WW2: Preparing for London's Civil Defence WW2: Leading London through the Blitz Postwar Reconstruction Abolishing Capital Punishment Plain Words Revising Fowler 'A Last Retrospect'

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'a welcome and worthy addition to the literature.' Public Policy Administration

Notă biografică

ANN SCOTT is Adjunct Professor in Criminology at the University of Queensland, Australia and also lectures in public policy. She has degrees in education and government and was a civil servant in Queensland for 20 years, 10 as a senior executive in the Queensland Police Service. She holds the Australian Public Service Medal.