List of Figures and Tables
Glossary of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Governance, Power and Politics in the Contemporary British State

Part I: The Theory of Governing Britain
1 The British Political Tradition and Whitehall Reform
2 The Westminster Model and the Whitehall Paradigm
3 Interpreting Continuity and Change in the Labour Party's Statecraft
4 The Core Executive, Governance and Power

Part II: The Practice of Governing Britain
5 Mapping the Case Studies of the 'Primeval Policy Soup'
6 The Centre and Departments in the Policy-making Process
7 Government and Governance: Patterns of Continuity and Change in the Whitehall Paradigm
8 The Role of Tradition and Path Dependency: New in Power
9 Conclusion: Power, Policy and the Modern State

Appendix I: Breakdown of Interviewees
Appendix II: Policy Governance under New Labour: Delivery Fields in Academies, Family-Nurse Partnerships, and the National Economic Council
Appendix III: 'Renewal and Strategic Audit': Memorandum to the Prime Minister
Appendix IV: New Labour's Critique of Whitehall and Proposals for Reforming the Centre of Government: Memorandum to the Prime Minister June 2000

Notes
Bibliography
Index