Politics of the Administrative Process

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CQ Press, 16 déc. 2016 - 504 pages
Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched view of the field in this reader–friendly best seller. With its engaging vignettes, rich examples and a unique focus on policymaking and politics, the Seventh Edition continues its strong emphasis on politics, accountability, and performance. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new scholarship, data, events, and case studies, giving students multiple opportunities to apply ideas and analysis as they read.
 

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Elements of Accountability
PART
THE JOB OF GOVERNMENT
Job Categories of Federal Civil
Employee Rights and Obligations
Government
Can State
Appropriation by the Legislature
Judging Program Success and Failure
ImplementationContractors
Performance Management

The Study of Public Administration
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For Further Reading
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Systems Theory
The Pluralist Challenge
Gesture or Abuse of Police Power?
2 Pay to Spray? Fire Protection and
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Seafood Safety
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10
Reorganization
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3
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Rooting Out Sexual
All the Worlds a Stage
PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
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Tiny Houses in Portland
Regulatory Procedure
ContractorLed
Conclusion
Collecting
Accountability and Politics
Committee Oversight of Administration
The Government Accountability Office
Principles to Make Accountability Work
Big Questions
Ethics and the Public Service
Case 14 1 The Department of Expectation
Governments Must Management Start Doing More with Less
Case 14 3 Will We Drink to That? The Florida Board of Educations War on Chocolate Milk
Case 14 4 Lobbying for EpiPens and Uber
Key Concepts 15 For Further Reading
Suggested Websites
Notes
Glossary of Key Concepts
Index
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Donald F. Kettl is Sid Richardson Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance and the Brookings Institution.Kettl is the author or editor of numerous books, including Can Governments Earn Our Trust? (2017); Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy (2017); The Politics of the Administrative Process (7th edition, 2017), Escaping Jurassic Government: Restoring America’s Lost Commitment to Competence (2016), System under Stress: The Challenge to 21st Century American Democracy Homeland Security and American Politics (2014), The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them (2008), and The Global Public Management Revolution (2005).He has received three lifetime achievement awards: the American Political Science Association’s John Gaus Award, for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in political science and public administration; the Warner W. Stockberger Achievement Award of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources, for outstanding contributions in the field of public sector personnel management; and the Donald C. Stone Award of the American Society for Public Administration, for significant contributions to field of intergovernmental relations.Three of his books have received national best-book awards. Kettl has twice won the Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration for the best book published in public administration: The Transformation of Governance (2002); and System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics (2005). His book, Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence, won the 2016 award for book of the year from the American Society for Public Administration.Kettl holds a PhD in political science from Yale University. Prior to his appointment at the University of Texas at Austin, he taught at the University of Maryland, where he served as Dean of the School of Public Policy. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the National Academy of Public Administration. Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations at all levels, in the United States and abroad, including most recently the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He has appeared frequently in national and international media, including National Public Radio, the Fox News Channel, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” and “The Situation Room,” the Huffington Post, as well as public television’s News Hour and the BBC. He is a regular columnist for Governing magazine, which is read by state and local government officials around the country. He chaired two gubernatorial blue-ribbon commissions for the Wisconsin state government, one on campaign finance reform and the other on government structure and finance.Kettl is a shareholder of the Green Bay Packers, along with his wife, Sue.

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