Chapter 1 Introducing the Core Executive

Chapter 2 From Prime Ministerial Power to Core Executive

Chapter 3 Central Government Departments and the Policy Process

Chapter 4 Relations between Prime Minister and Cabinet: From Wilson to Thatcher

Chapter 5 The Downfall of Margaret Thatcher

Chapter 6 Interpreting the Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher: Power Dependence and the Core Executive

Chapter 7 The Cabinet Office and Coordination, 1979–87

Chapter 8 The Ethos of the Cabinet Office: A Comment on the Testimony of Officials

Chapter 9 Ministerial Responsibility and the Theory of the British State

Chapter 10 Reinterpreting the Westland Affair: Theories of the State and Core Executive Decision Making

Chapter 11 Core Executive Decision Making on High Technology Issues: The Case of the Alvey Report

Chapter 12 Joining the ERM: Analysing a Core Executive Policy Disaster

Chapter 13 Leaders, Politics and Institutional Change: The Decline of Prime Ministerial Accountability to the House of Commons, 1868–1990