Donald F. Kettl 
Politics of the Administrative Process [EPUB ebook] 

Efficient public administration requires a delicate balance between politics, accountability, and performance–bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective but also accountable to elected officials and citizens. Author Don Kettl understands that the push and pull of political forces in a democracy make the functions of bureaucracy both contentious and crucial. In 
The Politics of the Administrative Process, he gives students a realistic, relevant, and well-researched view of the field featuring engaging vignettes and rich examples from current events like the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ninth Edition has been thoroughly updated with an additional chapter, as well as new scholarship, data, and case studies, giving students multiple opportunities to apply ideas and analysis as they read.

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Preface

About the Author

1. The Foundations of Public Administration

2. Accountability

PART I: The Job of Government

3. What Government Does—and How It Does It

4. What Is Public Administration?

PART II: Organizational Theory and the Role of Government’s Structure

5. Organizational Theory

6. The Executive Branch

7. Organization Problems

8. Administrative Reform

PART III: People in Government Organizations

9. The Civil Service

10. Human Capital

PART IV: Making and Implementing Government Decisions

11. Decision Making: Rationality and Risk

12. Budgeting

13. Implementation and Performance

PART V: Administration in a Democracy

14. Regulation and the Courts

15. Accountability and Oversight

Glossary of Key Concepts

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Donald F. Kettl is professor emeritus and former dean at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Until his retirement, he was the Sid Richardson Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a senior adviser at the Volcker Alliance, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.Kettl is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including Bridgebuilders: Harnessing Society’s Superpowers to Solve Its Biggest Problems,  with William D. Eggers; The Divided States of America (2020); Can Governments Earn Our Trust? (2017); Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy (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 Dwight Waldo Award of the American Society of Public Administration; the John Gaus Award of the American Political Science Association; and the Warner W. Stockberger Achievement Award of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources. Three of his books have received national best-book awards.Kettl holds a Ph D in political science from Yale University. He consults broadly for government organizations, at all levels and around the world. He has appeared frequently in national and international media. With his wife, Sue, he is also a co-shareholder of the Green Bay Packers.