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BACK TO THE FUTURE
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Ian Beesley9th November 2010
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Politicians are from?
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVIL SERVANTS AND MINISTERS IN 2020
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HONG KONG 2020
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
CODE FOR POLITICALLY APPOINTED OFFICIALS
PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS
UNDER-SECSPOLITICAL ASSts
SENIOR CS
LEGCO
CIVIL SERVICE CODE
CITIZENS
PUBLIC SERVICE
COMMISSION
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GOOD GOVERNMENT
“One of the hallmarks of a modern sustainable democratic state is the existence of a merit-based civil service, free from political interference. Creating such a civil service is one of the key tasks in state building.”
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HOW MUCH POLITICAL NEUTRALITY?
Sir Burke Trend (British Cabinet Secretary 1963-1973). Would go into the polling booth and come out without having voted.
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PERCEPTIONS
POLITICIANS• Live on publicity• Make empty promises• Tell you what they
think you want to hear• Fight the civil service• Line their pockets
CIVIL SERVANTS• Drink tea• Thwart Ministers• Cover up • Think the public are a
nuisance• Can’t wait for their
pensions
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REALITY
MINISTERS• In a hurry for results• Slow to rise, quick to fall• Members of a political
class • Head of the food chain• Publicly accountable• All political careers end
in failure
CIVIL SERVANTS• Process matters• Relatively secure• Members of an
intellectual elite• Indispensible yet
unnecessary• Increasingly accountable• Most careers end with
reduced status
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OUR PERCEPTIONS OF EACH OTHER
IN THE LOOP
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MINISTERS AND CIVIL SERVANTS
A Minister is a person elected or chosen to take the blame
Civil servant = Mandarin
.
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2020 VISION
Bureau/Dept
Exco
Media
Legco
[Party/constituents]
Chief Executive
Close associates &family
PO
Adapted from Working With Ministers CMPS 2004
PO
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TRUE FRIENDS STAB YOU IN THE FRONTOscar Wilde
2001 Election campaign
Source: Radice, Trio
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• Politicians set the course• Civil servants
link political power to the vehicle of delivery
IN THE SAME BOAT
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• "You had to make Churchill feel that you were on his side, that you sympathised with his general views, and that any criticism you made was genuinely intended to be helpful”
• “He was [then] full of candour and willingness to expose the rough workings of his mind”
Edward Bridges
MINISTERS MUST FEEL YOU ARE ON THEIR SIDE
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THE TWO FACES OF A CIVIL SERVANT
CONFIDENTIAL• Ideas• Options• Recommend• Advise• Warn• Plan• Implement
PUBLIC• Present
& defend policy in the best light while sticking to the facts
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• Senior civil servants may occasionally have to decide where the boundary between the administrative and the political lies and whether to cross it.
ON THE CUSP
Source: Michael Frith, Kitchen Cabinet, Financial Times
Gus O’Donnell, Press Secretary,Appointed Cabinet Secretary 2005
John Major
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• If you were them:–What would you
know already?–What would you
want to know?• How can you be:– Accurate– Brief– Clear
PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES
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• The hen is involved• But the pig is
truly committed
TOGETHER A GREAT COMBINATION
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The public will expect continuing good government & development of services
Meanwhile
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Your challenge: innovation
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IN A PHRASE
BUILD TRUST