Maybe Jenkin and fellow MPs will remedy this when they sit down to deliberate, but already they seem to have fallen prey to Whitehall's chronic disease – myopic departmentalism. |
These governments are learning to avoid or overcome excessive departmentalism and to seek an appropriate balance of devolution and democratic accountability. |
A revival of departmentalism could reverse that trend and make the court more circumspect, for the better. |
Furthermore, he saw that the masses were roused to tap latent reserves, to do away with departmentalism, and explore the colossal reserves of idle goods and materials. |
In the case of Scotland, from the outset the devolved government was adamant it wished to move from the departmentalism that had characterised Whitehall to a unified cross-departmental identity. |
He hinted at expanded cabinets for ministers and issued the standard denunciation of departmentalism before promising continuity, were Labour to win, and no jerking knees when it came to the machinery of government. |