The Politics Of The Administrative Process - Couverture souple

Donald F. Kettl is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Kettl is the author of numerous books, including The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them, The Global Public Management Revolution, and Leadership at the Fed. Kettl has twice won the Louis Brownlow Award for the best book in public administration, for The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-first Century America in 2003 and System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics in 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the John Gaus Award of the American Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations and is a regular columnist for Governing magazine. James W. Fesler, who died in 2005, was the Alfred Cowles Professor Emeritus of Government at Yale University. He received the Dwight Waldo Award of the American Society for Public Administration for distinguished contributions to the professional literature of public administration and the John Gaus Award in 1988. His books include Area and Administration, The Independence of State Regulatory Agencies, and a special new edition of Area and Administration, which appeared posthumously in 2008.

In this edition, the authors focus on the core components of public administration - such as budgeting, personnel, and implementation - while accounting for recent major developments. Bringing real world examples to bear on the best theory and scholarship. they address such important issues as administrative responsibility, the problems of 'big government', the modelling of public administation on business practices, innovations in information technology, and the efforts to bring performance measurement to government at all levels. The book includes new tables, figures and photos, and a new case appendix that showcases 14 case studies.