Statesmen in disguise: The changing role of the administrative class of the British home Civil Service, 1853-1966

The central theme of this book is that the Administrative Class should be amalgamated with the Executive Class on the basis of a more specialized career structure: the leading grades of the merged class, together with the equivalent grades of the specialist groups forming an integrated Higher Civil Services. This book traces the emergence of the Positive State and, against a historical background, an examination is made of its impact on the direct-entry recruitment and post-entry training arrangements of the Administrative Class, and the relationships of that class with the managerial Executive Class, the leading specialist groups, before concluding that a more unified Higher Civil Service would provide the type of administration needed by the modern State.