Changing Patterns of Government

DAVID MARSH is Professor of Politics at the University of Birmingham. Recent publications include Comparing Policy Networks.DAVID RICHARDS is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool. Recent publications include The Civil Service Under the Conservatives.MARTIN J. SMITH is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Recent publications include The Core Executive in Britain.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Culture and Power in Whitehall Structural Change in Central Government Departmental Cultures Departments and the Core Executive Reassessing the Role of Departmental Cabinet Ministers The Changing Relations between Ministers and Civil Servants The Departments' Relations Outside the Core Executive The Role of Europe Assessing the Differentiated Polity Model: Towards an Asymmetric Power Model Index