Concept information
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educational organizations
British educational organizations
government organizations
central government organizations
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organization studies
types of organization
government organizations
central government organizations
social science subjects
politics and international relations
governance
government (political science)
Preferred term
government departments
Definition
- To most readers, the term government department is a category that one uses in a telephone directory or a reference volume that lists an array of bureaucratic offices and agencies. But this assumption can be misleading. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Government Department]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- boards of education
- Cabinet Office
- Central Office of Information
- Committee of Council on Education
- Crown Prosecution Service
- customs and excise
- Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
- Department for Business Innovation and Skills
- Department for Children Schools and Families
- Department for Communities and Local Government
- Department for Constitutional Affairs
- Department for Culture Media and Sport
- Department for Education and Employment
- Department for Education and Skills
- Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Innovation Universities and Skills
- Department for International Development
- Department for Transport
- Department for Transport Local Government and Regions
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Department of Education and Science
- Department of Employment
- Department of Energy
- Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Department of Health
- Department of Health and Social Security
- Department of Social Security
- Department of the Environment
- Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions
- Department of Trade
- Department of Trade and Industry
- Department of Transport
- Departments of the Environment and Transport Common Services
- executive agencies
- food standards agency
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- health and social care department
- her majestys treasury
- HM Revenue and Customs
- home office
- industry regulators
- Inland Revenue
- laboratory of the government chemist
- Law Officers Department
- management and personnel office
- Manpower Services Commission
- ministry of agriculture fisheries and food
- Ministry of Defence
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Health
- ministry of justice
- National Audit Office
- Northern Ireland Office
- Office for National Statistics
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Public Record Office
- science and art department
- Scotland Office
- Scottish Executive Health Department
- Scottish Home and Health Department
- Scottish Office
- training agency
- training commission
- treasury
- United Kingdom Department for Education
- Wales Office
- Welsh Office
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/government_departments
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