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List of Contributors - List of Tables - List of Figures - Introducingthe Core Executive; R.A.W. Rhodes - PART 1: SURVEYING THE FIELD - FromPrime Ministerial Power to Core Executive; R.A.W. Rhodes - CentralGovernment Departments and the Policy Process; M. Smith, D. Marsh & D.Richards - PART 2: INTERPRETING HISTORY - Relations Between PrimeMinister and Cabinet: From Wilson to Thatcher; S. James - The Downfallof Margaret Thatcher; G.W. Jones - Interpreting the Fall of MargaretThatcher: Power-dependence and the Core Executive; M.J. Smith - TheCabinet Office and Co-ordination of 1979-87; A. Seldon - The Ethos ofthe Cabinet Office: A Comment on the Testimony of Officials; M. Lee -Ministerial Responsibility and the Theory of the British State; A.Beattie - PART 3: EMPIRICAL STUDIES - Reinterpreting the WestlandAffair: Theories of the State and Core Executive Decision Making; P.Dunleavy - Core Executive Decision Making on High Technology Issues:The Case of the Alvey Report; L. Keliher - Joining the ERM: Analysing aCore Executive Policy Disaster; H. Thompson - Leaders, Politics andInstitutional Change: The Decline of Prime Ministerial Accountabilityto the House of Commons, 1868-1990; P. Dunleavy & G.W. Jones with J.Burnham, R. Elgie & P. Fysh - Estimating the Distribution of Influencein Cabinet Committees under Major; P. Dunleavy - Guide to FurtherReading; R.A.W. Rhodes - References - Author Index - Subject Index