Tag: Dennis Grube
The requirement for civil servants to “promote” government policy has inevitably led to the perception of partisanship
The civil service is meant to be independent, serving the government of the day as it would a government of any other political persuasion. However, according to Dennis Grube, events since the publication of the 1968 Fulton Committee report (which recommended a more public role for civil servants) show the difficulties in reconciling independence and neutrality with […]
Civil servants are taking on an increasingly public role, allowing for perceptions of partisanship to emerge
Civil service leaders are appearing publicly more often, in more places, and to a wider range of audiences, than ever before. Does it matter if civil service leaders become more public figures than they have previously? Dennis Grube argues that the reason these changes matter is because the traditional anonymity of civil servants is linked in important ways […]
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