History of the Korean Civil Service Laws

Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain’s relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. Orphaned at the age of five, he went to China on his own as a child and worked his way to the top. God-fearing and fearless, he believed his mission was to bring trade and ‘civilisation’ to East Asia. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country’s humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise. Morton’s new biography, the first in over thirty years, and benefiting in part from access to the Parkes’ family and archives, offers a more intimate and informed profile of the personal and professional life of a Victorian titan and one of Britain’s most undiplomatic diplomats in the history of the British Civil Service.

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Cog in the Wheel of Patronage

Urbanisation ◽

10.1177/2455747117736417 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 135-141

Author(s):

Deepak Sanan

Keyword(s):

Civil Service ◽

Local Administration ◽

Incentive Structure ◽

Mountain Areas ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Administrative Service ◽

Making A Difference ◽

History Of ◽

Person Account ◽

Limited Scope

This is a brief history of a career in the generalist higher civil service of India called the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The article brings out the incentive structure which confronts a civil servant seeking to deliver better outcomes in the making and implementation of public policy in India. The peculiarities of India’s federal system of inter-governmental transfers, the constraints, dilemmas and limited scope for making a difference, are all explored in an anecdotal format in this first-person account of a career spanning three and a half decades. The author begins with his reasons for joining the civil service, his initial years of heading the local administration in remote mountain areas and moves on to an analysis of various postings at state and central levels, including stints in finance, rural and urban development, water, sanitation, health, land and power sectors. Each segment attempts to explain different facets and nuances of both the limits and potential of a career choice in the premier civil service of India.

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The Civil Service

The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197263198.003.0007 ◽

2004 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Vernon Bogdanor

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Great Britain ◽

Civil Service ◽

Public Utilities ◽

The Public ◽

History Of ◽

Post War ◽

The Revolution

This chapter examines the history of the civil service in Great Britain. It suggests that the revolution in Whitehall during the last two decades of the twentieth century transformed the civil service, and that many of the public utilities nationalised by the post-war Attlee government were privatised. Other major changes include the reduction in the size of the civil service and the application of market disciplines to it.

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