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Chapter 8
The Collaborative
Tradition—Stewardship
Responsiveness to
the Citizenry
Portrait of a Steward
In the lm e Girl in the Café (Yates 2005), one of the British chancellor of the
exchequer’s policy analysts, Lawrence, brings along a new girlfriend to the 2005 G8
summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Having just met her in a café two weeks prior and
only having had a lunch and a dinner together since, Lawrence knows very little
about the young Scottish woman.
When they arrive in Reykjavik, they are greeted by hoards of angry protestors
banging on the caravan of dignitaries’ cars. Lawrence wryly observes, “We are not
alone.” is is the rst indic ...