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Politics and Administration at the Top

Author : Delmer Dunn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822974975
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Administration at the Top written by Delmer Dunn and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1998 Charles Levine Award for best book on administration and policyDunn focuses on two levers of power in modern democracies, the elected party politician and the professional state bureaucrat, using Australia as his example. Dunn uses interviews with Cabinet ministers, members of their staffs, and department heads of two governments in Australia to see how ministers seek to provide political direction to the bureaucracy. He examines the extent to which they succeed and how their direction is both influenced by and acted on by the departments. Dunn's analysis provides a rare look at high-level relationships between politicians and executive departments in one democratic government and offers insights into issues of accountability and responsibility in democratic governments. His findings, based on his in-depth look at a government that blends many features of both U.S. and British governments, reveal the fundamentals that are necessary to make this key relationship work well and are thus pertinent to public administration in all democracies.

Politics and Administration

Author : Rabin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824770686
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Administration written by Rabin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1984-01-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Politics and Administration

Author : Frank J. Goodnow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Administration written by Frank J. Goodnow and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Administration

Author : David H. Rosenbloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Public Administration written by David H. Rosenbloom and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Transformation of Governance

Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416360
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Governance written by Donald F. Kettl and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the classic text on public administration presents practical steps for managing government effectively in an age of hyperpartisanship. Co-winner of the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual practice poses enormous challenges for front-line leaders struggling to deal with ever-larger expectations and ever-tighter budgets—and for American government in determining how best to hold public administrators accountable for their performance. The Transformation of Governance offers a new framework for reconciling effective administration with the requirements of democratic government. Instead of thinking in terms of organizational structure and management, Donald F. Kettl suggests, administrators and theorists need to focus on governance, or the links between government and its broader environment—political, social, and administrative—through which social action occurs. In this updated edition, a new epilogue shows Kettl urging political leaders to step back from the political barricades of hyperpartisanship to consider government’s contemporary dilemma: Is there any practical way forward for public administrators to manage government effectively? Reinforcing the ten principles of bridge building which he developed in the original book, Kettl adds an eleventh, which lays out five transformative strategies: redefining public law to promote public accountability; re-conceptualizing government agencies as instruments of leverage; launching government leaders as boundary spanners; using information technology for building authority and trust; and incorporating performance management into processes that drive collaboration. With a new preface from Michael Nelson, editor of the Interpreting American Politics series, this award-winning book will be sought out by public policymakers eager to read a leading scholar's newest insights into the field.

In the Web of Politics

Author : Joel D. Aberbach
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815723547
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book In the Web of Politics written by Joel D. Aberbach and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people think of governmental bureaucracy as a dull subject. Yet for thirty years the American federal executive has been awash in political controversy. From George Wallace's attacks on "pointy headed bureaucrats," to Richard Nixon's "responsiveness program," to the efforts of Al Gore and Bill Clinton to "reinvent government," the people who administer the American state have stood uncomfortably in the spotlight, caught in a web of politics. This book covers the turmoil and controversy swirling around the bureaucracy since 1970, when the Nixon administration tried to tighten its control over the executive branch. Drawing on interviews conducted over the past three decades, Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman cast light on the complex relationship between top civil servants and political leaders and debunk much of the received wisdom about the deterioration and unresponsiveness of the federal civil service. The authors focus on three major themes:the "quiet crisis" of American administration, a hypothesized decline in the quality and morale of federal executives; the "noisy crisis," which refers to the large question of bureaucrats' responsiveness to political authority; and the movement to "reinvent" American government. Aberbach and Rockman examine the sources and validity of these themes and consider changes that might make the federal government's administration work better. They find that the quality and morale of federal executives have held up remarkably well in the face of intense criticism, and that the bureaucracy has responded to changes in presidential administrations. Pointing out that bureaucrats are convenient targets in contemporary political battles, the authors contend that complexity, contradiction, and bloated or inefficient programs are primarily the product of elected politicians, not bureaucrats.The evidence suggests that American federal executives will carry out the political will if they are given adequate support and realistic

Paths to Making a Difference

Author : Paul R. Lawrence
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442213094
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Paths to Making a Difference written by Paul R. Lawrence and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration. The participants—deputy secretaries and agency heads—provide case studies of how each approaches the management challenges and achieves the mission of their organization. Full of behind-the-scenes insights and practical advice from government political executives on how they face management challenges in real time, Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government offers indispensable insights to current and prospective political appointees and everyone interested in understanding how leaders work to make government agencies more effective.

Rethinking Public Administration

Author : Jr Richard Clay Wilson
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781626523388
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Public Administration written by Jr Richard Clay Wilson and published by Mill City Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think about government, our thoughts are almost invariably about politics. Politicians deserve the attention they get, serving as they do at the top of federal, state, and local government. But there is a downside to focusing on politics, which is that we pay no attention to the management of our public institutions. Author Richard Clay Wilson, Jr., a former city manager, argues that the career managers who actually operate the entities of government have the capacity to significantly upgrade governmental performance. Before that can happen, though, we must rethink the roles of elected officials and career managers. This book points the way.

Public Administration in Germany

Author : Sabine Kuhlmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030536971
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Public Administration in Germany written by Sabine Kuhlmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.

What Government Does

Author : Mark A. Abramson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442232447
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book What Government Does written by Mark A. Abramson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an Administration’s objectives, business-in-government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a four-year study of top political appointees in the Obama Administration. The 42 participants—Deputy Secretaries and agency heads—provide case studies of how each approaches the management challenges and achieves the mission of their organization. Full of behind-the-scenes insights and practical advice from government political executives on how they face management challenges in real time, What Government Does: How Political Executives Manage offers indispensable insights to current and prospective political appointees and everyone interested in understanding how leaders make government agencies more effective. The new book, a follow-up to their previous book, Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government, presents an insightful framework of what government does. Instead of thinking about government by policy area, the authors present an alternative approach in which government executives are categorized by the type of agency they are managing. The book includes chapters on Deputy Secretaries, producers, regulators, infrastructors, scientists, and collaborators.

Politics and Administration at the Top

Author : Delmer Dunn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822956501
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Administration at the Top written by Delmer Dunn and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1998 Charles Levine Award for best book on administration and policy Dunn focuses on two levers of power in modern democracies, the elected party politician and the professional state bureaucrat, using Australia as his example. Dunn uses interviews with Cabinet ministers, members of their staffs, and department heads of two governments in Australia to see how ministers seek to provide political direction to the bureaucracy. He examines the extent to which they succeed and how their direction is both influenced by and acted on by the departments. Dunn's analysis provides a rare look at high-level relationships between politicians and executive departments in one democratic government and offers insights into issues of accountability and responsibility in democratic governments. His findings, based on his in-depth look at a government that blends many features of both U.S. and British governments, reveal the fundamentals that are necessary to make this key relationship work well and are thus pertinent to public administration in all democracies.

What Motivates Bureaucrats?

Author : Marissa Martino Golden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231106971
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book What Motivates Bureaucrats? written by Marissa Martino Golden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Political Science Quarterly

Memos to the President

Author : Mark A. Abramson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742522404
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Memos to the President written by Mark A. Abramson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memos to the President: Management Advice from the Nation's Top Public Administrators provides eighteen memos to President George W. Bush about the management challenges facing his administration. Experts in public administration and public management give the President advice on four major management challenges: creating an electronic government, reforming regulations, revitalizing public service, and implementing performance management. The volume grows out of the work of the Government Performance Coalition, an ad hoc group of fourteen academic and nonprofit organizations united by their concern for improving the quality of government management.

Local Government Management

Author : Douglas J. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134942788
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Local Government Management written by Douglas J. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the very best writings on issues involving local government can be found in journals published by the American Society for Public Administration or journals with which ASPA is associated. This volume includes thirty of the most outstanding articles that have been published over the past sixty years in these journals. Local Government Management is an ideal supplement for any course in local management and administration, whether the audience is students or practicing professionals.

Thickening Government

Author : Paul Light
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815720165
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Thickening Government written by Paul Light and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government is under enormous pressure to change. Call it reinventing, reengineering, or plain old change, but the mandate remains the same: produce more with less, and satisfy the customer while doing it. Yet, successful reform must involve more than exhortation and slogans. Paul Light argues that a failure to pay attention to the thickening of government over the past half century may doom any reinventing effort. The federal government has never had so many leaders. There are more layers of management between the top and bottom of government, with more administrative units and occupants at each layer. Bill Clinton is further from the frontlines of government than any president in American history. If the past decades are any indication, he will exit a presidency that is even thicker. Light presents a revealing look at how thick the bureaucracy really is, how and why thickening occurs, what difference it might make, and what can be done to both reverse the process and keep the thickening from growing back. Light shows how the management layers between the top and bottom of government—between air traffic controllers and the Secretary of Transportation, food inspectors and the Secretary of Agriculture, and so on—have steadily increased. In 1960, for example, John F. Kennedy's senior-most appointments came in four layers: secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, and deputy assistant secretary. By 1992, the number of layers had tripled. In the meantime, the number of occupants at each layer grew geometrically; the number of assistant secretaries jumped from 81 to 212. A government of managers means the president has very little direct access or control over what happens far below, a basic problem of accountability. Information gets distorted on the way up, and guidance gets lost on the way down. Thickening often creates so many bureaucratic baffles that no one can be held accountable for any decision; mid-level workers may have so many bosses that they effectively have none. Light concludes that practically nothing by way of quality management, service-government, or employee involvement can work with these towering government agencies. But practically nothing will fail if a radical "down- layering" is undertaken now.

Democracy Administered

Author : Anthony Michael Bertelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169712
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Democracy Administered written by Anthony Michael Bertelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who implement policies have the discretion to shape democratic values. Public administration is not policy administered, but democracy administered.

The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Author : Patrick Overeem
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466558997
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book The Politics-Administration Dichotomy written by Patrick Overeem and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics-administration dichotomy is much mentioned and often criticized in the Public Administration literature. The Politics-Administration Dichotomy: Toward a Constitutional Perspective, Second Edition offers a book-length treatment of this classical notion. While public administration academics typically reject it as an outdated and even dangerous idea, it re-emerges implicitly in their analyses. This book tells the story of how this has happened and suggests a way to get out of the quandary. It analyzes the dichotomy position in terms of content, purpose, and relevance. What’s in the Second Edition Extensive study of the politics-administration dichotomy as a classic idea in Public Administration A much-overlooked constitutionalist line of argument in defense of this widely discredited notion Exploration and further development of the intellectual legacy of Dwight Waldo Coverage of the dichotomy’s conceptual origins in 18th and 19th century Continental-European thought An assessment of main criticisms against and alternatives for the dichotomy presented in the literature Contributions to the newly emerging Constitutional School in the study of public administration An argument against the institutional separation of Political Science and Public Administration in academia Completely revised and updated, the book examines the idea that politics and public administration should be separated in our theories and practices of government. A combination of history of ideas and theoretical analysis, it reconstructs the dichotomy’s conceptual origins and classical understandings and gives an assessment of the main criticisms raised against it and the chief alternatives suggested for it. Arguing that one-sided interpretations have led to the dichotomy’s widespread but wrongful dismissal, the study shows how it can be recovered as a meaningful idea when understood as a constitutional principle. This study helps readers make sense of highly confused debates and challenge the issues with an original and provocative stance.