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1967. Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform by Paul Smith
1988. Ethics in the British Civil Service
2005. The Political Economy of The Great Lakes Region in Africa: The Pitfalls of Enforced Democracy and Globalization

1967, Routledge, hbk
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• Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform [top]
  Written by Paul Smith
  First published in 1967 in Great Britain by Routledge & Kegan Paul as part of their Studies in Political History series under the general editorship of Michael Hurst, Fellow of St. John's College Oxford. Bibliographic details: 358pp, with dustjacket, no ISBN
  Original UK retail price: 60s. net (60 shillings)/Original US price: $10.00

Contents/synopsis:In the evolution of the Conservative party, the period between 1866 and 1880 marks a crtical stage. It is in these years that Disraeli is often held to have founded 'modern' Conservatism, by adapting the party to the necessity of broadening the franchise and promoting the interests of the new working-class electors to the forefront of politics. Yet the party hardly became deeply imbued with 'Disraelian' ideas and the vital current in its development seems to have been rather its growing understanding with the urban bourgeoisie than any rapprochement with the urban working classes.

The book discusses the party's course of evolution in its Disraelian period by focussing on a central theme of 'Disraelian' Conservatism - Social Reform. Dr. Smith examines the role given to social reform in Conservative Strategy, and the attitudes adopted by the party towards the social problems most important to the condition of the working classes - education, public health, housing, labour questions, the drink traffic, and poor relief.

Finally, the author gauges how far the party was "affected" by the 'Disraelian' ideas of popular appeal on the bais of social improvement, and how far its outlook and character were being shaped in other moulds

Chapters:
Preface; List of Abbreviations
Introduction
'Safe Legislative Progress', 1866-7
Leaping and landing, 1867-8
'The Utmost Reserve and Quietness', 1869-71
Achilles from his tent, 1872-4
The Condition of the People, 1874-6
Decline & Fall, 1877-1880
Conclusion, Select Bibliography, Index

Plates
1. 'The First Question' (Punch, July 7, 1866), facing page 86
2. Sir John Pakington
3. Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson
4. Richard Assheton Cross
5. George Sclater-Booth
6. Sir Charles Adderley
7. 'Doing Penance' (Punch, August 7, 1875)
8. Viscount Sandon

About the Author:
At the time of publication, Paul Smith was Lecturer in history at King's College, London, having received his doctorate from Oxford in 1965.
He was educated at Andover Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. After undertaking research at St. Anthony's College, Oxford, he taught at the Queen's University of Belfast

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1988, Routledge
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• Ethics in The British Civil Service [top]
  Written by Richard A. Chapman [Professor of Politics at the University of Durham]
  Published by Routledge in 1988 in Great Britain, 340pp, ISBN 0415003342

Contents: This book is about the application of moral standards in the course of official work in the British Civil Service. It approaches the subject by examining the career of Sir Edward (later Lord) Bridges, Head of the Civil Service from 1945-1966. No other official has had so much influence on the British Civil Service since the Second World War: Bridges contributed to its ethos and traditions and set a high standard by his own example of how a civil servant ought to behave. The book considers in depth such topics as Bridges' role in making appointments to top positions in the public services, the political attitudes and behaviour of civil servants, the machinery of government, open government, generalist administration and the role of civil servants in relation to the constitution. It uses hitherto unused files in the Public Record Office, other documentary sources, and interviews with people who worked with Bridges. Many of these topics were sensitive in the middle decades of the twentieth century and are still sensitive today. The book raises questions, of major importance at the present time [1988], about methods of work and the standards expected of civil servants.

Chapters:
Acknowledgements
List of Characters
Introduction

1. Edward Bridges 1892-1969
   Edward Bridges: biography
   The Head of the Civil Service
   Generalist Administration
2. Personnel Management
   Procedure for senior appointments
   Examples of sensitive management and difficult cases
   Bridges' personnel management experience in context
3. Political Attitudes and Political Behaviour
   The non-partisan civil servant
   Bridges and the Masterman Enquiry
   Political attitudes and political behaviour
4. The Case of Sir Christopher Bullock
   Sir Christopher Bullock and the events of 1936
   Bridges' personal initiative
   The Bullock Case in retrospect
5. The Machinery of Government
   An introduction to the machinery of government committees
   The MG and MGO committees
   The period from 1945 to 1947
   The Government Organisation Committee
   The Treasury Organisation Committee
   Bridges and the machinery of government
6. Publicity and the Profession
   Publicity
   The Royal Institute of Public Administration
   Publicity and the profession
7. The Civil Servant and the Constitution
   Constitutional and political advice
   The departmental point of view
8. Ethics in the British Civil Service
   Political and administrative perspectives
   Leadership and individual civil servants
   Edward Bridges as Head of the Civil Service

Index

• The Political Economy of the Great Lakes [top]
  Written and Edited by Stefaan Marysse and Filip Reyntjens
  First published in 2005 in Great Britain by Palgrave Macmillan in hardback with dustjacket, 243pp, ISBN 1403949506. Recommended retail price when first sold: £68.00
  Contains: 16 tables of data, 3 maps and 22 figures

About this book: This volume examines the effects of enforced democracy and globalization on the Great Lakes region of Africa where widespread violence and human suffering have been occurring, shown to us by the extensive media coverage. The problems with this media coverage is that it is not always reliable.

To this end, this volume adopts an independent viewpoint from that of the media and courts with some controversy at the same time. It starts with Rwanda in the regional geopolitical context during the 1990s and follows the expanding instability from Rwanda into the neighbouring Congo, all the time explaining why the conflicts and regress should be seen in context of globalization and the paths being taken towards democracy

Chapters:
List of Tables and Maps
List of Figures
Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors

Part 1: In the Eye of the Storm
1. Rwanda, Ten Years On: From Genocide to Dictatorship by Filip Reyntjens
2. Disconnecting the Threads: Rwanda and the Holocaust Reconsidered by René Lemarchand
3. The Evolution and Characteristics of Poverty and Inequality in Rwanda by An Ansoms and Stefaan Marysse
4. Consociational Democracy for Rwanda? by Stef Vandeginste and Luc Huyse

Part 2: From Collapse and War to Reconstruction?
5. Regress, War and Fragile Recovery: The Case of the DRCongo by Stefaan Marysse
6. The Mining Sector in Congo: The Victim or the Orphan of Globalization? by Erik Kennes
7. Kivu and Ituri in the Congo War: The Roots and Nature of a Linkage by Stanislas Bucyalimwe Mararo
8. War and the Political Economy of Kinshasa by Tom De Herdt and Claudine Tshimanga

About the Authors:
Stefaan Marysse at the time of publication was Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Stefaan at the time of publication was the Director of the Centre of the Study of the Great Lakes Region in Africa and has co-edited 'L'Afrique des Grands lacs: Annuaire 1996-1997'; also authoring Léconomie informelle au Zaïre: (Sur)vie et pauvreté dans la période de transition (Afrika studies)

Filip Reyntjens at the time of publication was Professor of Law and Politics and Chairman of the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, with a specialisation in the African Great Lakes region on which he has published several books and numerous articles. He has of course co-edited the book mentioned above: 'L'Afrique des Grands lacs: Annuaire 1996-1997'