The Politics of the Administrative Process - Softcover

Fesler, James W.; Kettl, Donald F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566430259 ISBN 13: 9781566430258

Publisher: Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

An introduction to the field of public administration which has been revised to reflect the political issues of the 1990s. The major components and processes of the bureaucratic system are covered. This encompasses the functions and tools of government, organization theory, the executive branch, and the civil service, as well as problems of decision making, budgeting, implementation, and legislative and judicial control.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald F. Kettl is Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to his appointment, he was the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Political Science. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1566430259
• ISBN 13: 9781566430258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 512