Government and the Governed
The last of six talks by Sir Douglas Wass. GCB.
Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Joint Head of the Home Civil Service until his retirement in spring this year
Participation— the Sole Bond The Greek city state, the polls,wassmallenoughto permit all free men to share in the taking of political decisions, and it was an important duty laid upon the citizen to accept this responsibility. Representative government, as we know it today, would have been a peculiar, indeed a questionable .. The challenge today is to make the political process more publicly acceptable. And the key lies in seekmg to re-establish the Greek ideal in concept if not inpreciseform.