Introduction: The Human Factor in Governance

Willy McCourt
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Willy McCourt: University of Manchester

Chapter 1 in The Human Factor in Governance, 2006, pp 1-25 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Our book shares its title with one of Graham Greene’s latest and most satisfying novels, The human factor, whose plot serves as an oblique introduction to our subject. If anyone deserves the title ‘novelist of the Third World’, it is surely Greene, child of the English upper middle class though he was. His career as a writer was getting into its stride in the mid-1950s when the term began to be widely used, and he and it reached their respective ends almost together, with Greene dying within two years of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the consequent demise of the Communist ‘Second World’. His books included all three continents of the South in their settings, with Sierra Leone, Mexico and Vietnam among his locations. Politically he was in sympathy with ‘Third Worldism’, enjoying friendships with Fidel Castro and with Panama’s Omar Torrijos, about whom he wrote a personal memoir (Greene, 1984).

Keywords: Civil Service; Staff Management; Governance Index; Line Ministry; Strategic Human Resource Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230208308_1

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