ALT Britain’s whiz kids: the PAR, CPRS and managerialism in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s Benjamin Thomas Abstract: Recent scholarship on managerialism in the United States has identified an alternative genealogy for concepts commonly associated with neoliberalism. This article uses this new lens and original historical research to re-evaluate two British administrative institutions from the 1970s, the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS) and Programme Analysis and Review (PAR). Building on the existing literature on managerialism in Britain, the article argues for a revised periodisation that understands the CPRS and PAR as not just ill-fated administrative reforms, but rather as part of an early and largely successful attempt to import managerialist ideas into British public administration. This new analysis provides a more accurate account of these reforms and improves understanding of the actors, institutions and ideas behind the introduction of managerialism. The article frames manager