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A Government of Strangers

A Government of Strangers

Author: Hugh Heclo

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

ISBN: 0815705190

Category: Political Science

Page: 272

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How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt. Shifting attention away form the well-publicized actions of the President, High Heclo reveals the little-known everyday problems of executive leadership faced by hundreds of appointees throughout the executive branch. But he also makes clear why bureaucrats must deal cautiously with political appointees and with a civil service system that offers few protections for broad-based careers of professional public service. The author contends that even as political leadership has become increasingly bureaucratized, the bureaucracy has become more politicized. Political executives—usually ill-prepared to deal effectively with the bureaucracy—often fail to recognize that the real power of the bureaucracy is not its capacity for disobedience or sabotage but its power to withhold services. Statecraft for political executives consists of getting the changes they want without losing the bureaucratic services they need. Heclo argues further that political executives, government careerists, and the public as well are poorly served by present arrangements for top-level government personnel. In his view, the deficiencies in executive politics will grow worse in the future. Thus he proposes changes that would institute more competent management of presidential appointments, reorganize the administration of the civil service personnel system, and create a new Federal Service of public managers.
A Government of Strangers
Language: en
Pages: 272

A Government of Strangers

Authors: Hugh Heclo
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-01 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the
Beyond a Government of Strangers
Language: en
Pages: 149

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Authors: Robert Maranto
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Lexington Books

With rare exceptions, few large institutions change bosses every two or three years. Yet the U.S. Government has temps on top. American government has 3,000 presidential political appointees and thousands more state and local political appointees, who refer to their in-and-out bosses as Christmas help. Beyond a Government of Strangers
A Government Ill Executed
Language: en
Pages: 288

A Government Ill Executed

Authors: Paul C. Light
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called “the true test” of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government. Employing Hamilton’s seven measures of an
Bureaucratic Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 224

Bureaucratic Democracy

Authors: Douglas Yates
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and
The Trusted Leader
Language: en
Pages: 349

The Trusted Leader

Authors: Terry Newell, Grant Reeher, Peter Ronayne
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: CQ Press

Government reform efforts usually focus on macro-level change heralded by new policies, programs, structures, and systems. Yet they tend to ignore that these reforms do not succeed without people. Public managers who form healthy working relationships built on trust are the micro-level change levers—the necessary pre-condition to improving government. Buttressed

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