Social Democracy and Bureaucracy
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Administration & Society
- Vol. 17 (1) , 97-128
- https://doi.org/10.1177/009539978501700105
Abstract
The Labour Party in Great Britain has been committed to the principle of equality and has addressed itself both in rhetoric and in practice to furthering the equalitarian ideal in power and authority relationships in English society, viz., in Parliament and industrial organizations. However, though the Party has relied heavily on the bureaucracy for effecting social democracy, the Party has had little interest in equalitarian access to the Higher Civil Service, which has traditionally recruited predominantly middle-class Oxbridge graduates. The explanation lies in the joint membership of Labour Party intellectuals and civil servants in what Edward Shils, has called the "aristo-gentry" culture.Keywords
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