1.The Origins of the Permanent Civil Service, 1780-1830
2. The Decline of Patronage
3. Ministerial Responsibility: The Nineteenth Century Reformulation
4. Ministers in their Departments
5. The Permanent Officials
6. Law and Administration
7. The Ministers Powers
8. Some Departments and Treasury Control
9. The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government
10. Our Present Discontents