Political Advice (eBook, PDF)

Past, Present and Future

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Produktbeschreibung

The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the changing (and sometimes unchanging) nature of expertise; the ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion; and how that is controlled.

This volume of essays feeds into a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Moreover, the volume treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion with contributions from classics and literature as well as from history and politics. The unique practitioners' perspective to the problem of political advice is brought by the contributions of politicians, political advisers and senior civil servants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838604769
• Artikelnr.: 61090069

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Rose is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy (2011), which won the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society. Her recent research has been in the field of counsel and advice, and she was the editor of The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland 1286-1707, published by the British Academy in 2016. Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of five books including Subverting Scotland's Past (1993), Union and Unionisms (2008), and The World of Mr Casaubon (2016). He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the Guardian.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Political advising - Lord Butler
1. Political advice: Past, present - and future? - Colin Kidd and
Jacqueline Rose
2. What would Perikles do, and why it still matters - asking the ancient
Greek gods for political advice - Esther Eidinow
3. Obliquus ductus: Indirect political advice in the Renaissance - Joanne
Paul
4. How not to do it: Poets and counsel, Thomas Wyatt to Geoffrey Hill -
Colin Burrow
5. William Davison and the perils of advice in Elizabethan England -
Jacqueline Rose
6. The parliamentary way of counsel - Paul Seaward
7. Smith as spad? Adam Smith and advice to politicians - Jesse Norman
8. A mirror for princes? British orientalists and the Persian Question -
Ali M. Ansari
9. Reflections on the Central Policy Review Staff - William Waldegrave
10. Astrology and advice at the Reagan court - Colin Kidd
11. You've got to ask the right expert: Who gives political advice? -
Marius S. Ostrowski
12. Advice in a time of belief: Civil service impartiality in two
referendums - Jim Gallagher
13. Advising Trump - Rob Goodman
14. Managing the growing tension between politics and governance: Hard
choices ahead for Whitehall and Westminster - Martin Donnelly