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Literature in the Public Service

Sublime Bureaucracy

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  • © 2013

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  1. Ceri Sullivan
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Weber, Bureaucracy and Creativity

    • Ceri Sullivan
    Pages 1-19

  3. The 1650s: Milton and the Beginning of Civil Service

    • Ceri Sullivan
    Pages 20-64

  4. The 1850s: Trollope and the Height of Civil Service Ambitions

    • Ceri Sullivan
    Pages 65-113

  5. The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision

    • Ceri Sullivan
    Pages 114-154

  6. Coda: Bureaucratic Creativity

    • Ceri Sullivan
    Pages 155-157

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 158-218
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How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of literature and bureaucracy dismisses Weber's 'neurocrat'. Milton, Trollope and Hare are case studies on implementing the 'what if' visions literature explored during a period of great change in public service

About the author

CERI SULLIVAN was a chartered accountant for NGOs and parastatal organisations, in Britain and across sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently a Professor of English literature in north Wales, researching the ways in which sustainable governance draws on the rhetoric of the public sphere, in imaginative representations in and of government institutions.

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