| Abstrakt: |
The civil service is a creation of the state and not of any social or economic forces and has no organic relationship to society. Therefore, when a new state is established a new civil service is also demanded. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, the civil service of the defeated imperial regimes was dealing with this reality. In Ireland, a parallel process of state destruction and state-building occurred. However, unlike the post-Versailles states, the Irish Free State achieved remarkable stability despite experiencing a civil war. It has been proposed that one reason for that stability was that the government of the new state maintained the civil service of the former regime and so ensured continuity in the administration. By reconstructing the experience of the civil service in the period of the Irish revolution that view is challenged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
