Professionalism and the Millbank Tendency: The Political Sociology of New Labour's employees

This article analyses party employees, one of the most under-researched subjects in the study of British political parties. We draw on a blend of quantitative and qualitative data in order to shed light on the social and political profiles of Labour Party staff, and on the question of their professionalisation. The latter theme is developed through a model derived from the sociology of professions. While a relatively limited proportion of party employees conform to the pure ideal-type of professionalism, a considerably greater number manifest enough of the core characteristics of specialisation, commitment, mobility, autonomy and self-regulation to be reasonably described as 'professionals in pursuit of political outcomes'

INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION MANDATES: A STUDY OF TWO LAND USE REGULATORY POLICIES

This paper examines the implementation mandates and experiences associated with two intergovernmental regulatory policies, one at the federal-state level and the other a t the state-control level. The policies are the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 and the Florida Growth Management Act of 1985. These experiences suggest that implementation mandates, a t least with respect to intergovernmental regulatory policies, are not as effective as logic and rational argument might dictate. Copyright 1989 by The Policy Studies Organization.