Titlebook: Governing Scotland; The Invention of Adm James Mitchell Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003 burea

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Settling Down to Business,a casual kind of way forty years ago’. The Scottish Secretary ‘is a mysterious potentate who is known to exercise great power in certain spheres, but the nature of whose functions, powers and responsibilities is little understood by the people he is supposed to govern as a minister responsible to th

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Educational Administration,ducational organisation and indeed finance. Co-ordination had initially been provided by the Kirk but over time the state at the centre adopted an increasing role in education. The organisation of the state’s involvement, therefore, had its basis in the organisation of the Kirk. In the words of Geor

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MacDonnell, the Boards and the 1928 Act, the Machinery of Government Committee (Haldane), each calling for Scottish administration to be modelled on Whitehall. But it was not until 1939 that the Scottish central administration was finally constituted on Whitehall lines with the dissolution of most of the remaining boards. The 1928 Act was

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Scottish Office Ministers, a Cabinet post was thought to be inadequate. But the office of Secretary for Scotland that was established, as distinct from a Secretary of State, did not carry with it automatic membership of the Cabinet. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon accepted the office in 1885 in exchange for his previous offi

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Conclusion, of nationalism have long understood that history or, at least, collective memory is important. Scholars of public administration and political institutions are increasingly aware of the importance of the past in understanding how institutions and policies are shaped. Two principal factors explain t

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Estimation in Parametric Models,untable to Parliament at Westminster, it also represented the unity of the state. Founded in 1885, the Scottish Office’s jurisdiction grew throughout its existence. At its inception, its work was held to be ‘not very heavy’. and the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the first Scottish Secretary, doubted

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