Portrait of an ‘outsider’ as permanent secretary in Whitehall: the life and times of Michael Bichard – an un-mandarin like mandarin¹?

References

• Abbott, K., P. Genschel, D. Snidal, and B. Zang. 2021. “Beyond Opportunism: Intermediary Loyalty in Regulation and Governance.” Regulation and Governance. doi:10.111/rego.12434.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barberis, P. 1994. “Permanent Secretaries and Policy-making in the 1980s.” Public Policy and Administration 9: 35–48.
   Google Scholar
• Barberis, P. 1996a. The Whitehall Reader. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Barberis, P. 1996b. The Elite of the Elite. Aldershot: Dartmouth.
   Google Scholar
• Barberis, P. 2014. “The Managerial Imperative: Fifty Years’ Change in UK Public Administration.” Public Policy and Administration 28 (4): 327–345.
   Google Scholar
• Blunkett, D. 2006. The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit. London: Bloomsbury.
   Google Scholar
• Boardman, N. 2021. Review Into the Development and Use of Supply Chain Finance in Government: Part 2 Recommendations and Suggestions. London: HMSO.
   Google Scholar
• Burnham, J., and R. Pyper. 2008. Britain’s Modernised Civil Service. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
   Google Scholar
• Cameron, S. 2012. “Whitehall’s Top Knights Jostle Over Reform.” The Telegraph, 14 June, 25.
   Google Scholar
• Chitty, C. 2009. Education Policy in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Chitty, C. 2013. New Labour and Secondary Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Department for Education. 2021. About Us. https://www.gov.uk/browse/education.
   Google Scholar
• Department for Education and Employment. 2001. Departmental Report (Cm 5102). London: HMSO.
   Google Scholar
• Dixon, H. 2021. “At Least 13 Highly Paid bureaucrats had Second Jobs During Time at Whitehall.” The Telegraph 20th April.
   Google Scholar
• Dunleavy, P. 1991. Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice. London: Pearson.
   Google Scholar
• English, F. 2006. “Understanding Leadership in Education (Special Issue: Educational Administration and Leadership in Education: a Case for History).” Journal of Educational Administration and History 38 (2): 141–155.
   Google Scholar
• Eyvindr, L. 2012. Permanent Secretary. London: Crypt.
   Google Scholar
• Greenfield, T., and P. Ribbins. eds. 1993. Greenfield on Educational Administration: Towards a Humane Science. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Gronn, P., and P. Ribbins. 1996. “Leaders in Context: Postpositivist Approaches to Understanding Educational Leadership.” Educational Administration Quarterly 32 (2): 452–473.
   Google Scholar
• Harris, J., and T. Garcia. 1966. “The Permanent Secretaries: Britain’s Top Administrators.” Public Administration Review 26 (1): 88–97.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hennessy, P. 2001. Whitehall, 2nd ed. London: Pimlico.
   Google Scholar
• Hodges, L. 1996. “The Very Model of a Modern Mandarin.” Times Educational Supplement, 12th January.
   Google Scholar
• Kelsall, R. 1955. Higher Civil Servants in Britain. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Nairn, P. 1990. “The Civil Service: Mandarins and Ministers.” Wrokton Papers in Politics, Series A, Paper A6. Barnstable: Philip Charles Media.
   Google Scholar
• Neilson, K., and T. Otte. 2012. The Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1984-1946. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Niskanen, W. 1971. Bureaucracy and Representative Government. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.
   Google Scholar
• Normington, D. 2013. Speaking Note for a Seminar on the Appointment of Permanent Secretaries (Held at the Institute of Government) 28th January 2013, London: Civil Service Commission, 1-6.
   Google Scholar
• Plowden, W. 1985. “What Prospects for the Civil Service.” Public Administration 63: 393–414.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rhodes, R. 2005. “Everyday Life in a Ministry: Public Administration as Anthropology.” American Review of Public Administration xx: 1–23.
   Google Scholar
• Rhodes, R. 2011. Everyday Life in British Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P. 2007. “A Life and Career-Based Framework for the Study of Educational Leaders.” In International Handbook for the Preparation and Development of School Leaders, edited by J. Lumby, G. Crow, and P. Pashiardis, 61–81. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P., and B. Sherratt. 2012. “Permanent Secretaries, Consensus and Centrism in Policy Making in Education - David Hancock and the 1988 Reform Act.” Educational Management Administration and Leadership 40 (5): 544–559.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P., and B. Sherratt. 2013a. “Leading Education in the UK: A Study of the Policy and Personal Relationships of Selected Permanent Secretaries and their Secretaries of State.” International Studies in Educational Administration 41 (1): 105–122.
   Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P., and B. Sherratt. 2013b. Portrait of a Permanent Secretary: Reflections on the Career of Sir Geoffrey Holland – A ‘Big Beast’ in Whitehall, (unpublished).
   Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P., and B. Sherratt. 2014. “Reforming the Civil Service and Revising the Role of the Mandarin in Britain.” Public Policy and Administration 29 (1): 21–44.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P., and B. Sherratt. 2015. “Centrism and the Mandarin Class: Understanding the Meta-Politics of Whitehall Bureaucratic Neutrality.” Public Policy and Administration 30 (1): 5–31.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ribbins, P., and B. Sherratt. 2016. “Biography and the Study of Public Administration: Towards a Portrait of a Whitehall Mandarin.” Journal of Educational Administration and History 48 (3): 243–261.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Richards, D. 1997. The Civil Service Under the Conservatives 1979-1997. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Richards, D. 2008. New Labour and the Civil Service. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
   Google Scholar
• Sherratt, B. 2004. Permanent Secretaries and Education Policy: The Meta-Politics of Bureaucratic Neutrality, PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham.
   Google Scholar
• Theakston, K. 1999. Leadership in Whitehall. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
   Google Scholar
• Theakston, K., and G. Fry. 1989. “British Administrative Elite: Permanent Secretaries 1900-86.” Public Administration 67: 129–147.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson, R. 2006. Tomorrow’s Government Lecture. London: University College London.
   Google Scholar
• Wilson, E. 2015. The Whitehall Mandarin. London: Arcadia Books.
   Google Scholar