Democracy Administered - How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government

Those who implement policies have the discretion to shape democratic values. Public administration is not policy administered, but democracy administered.

List of contents

1. Democracy from administration; 2. Accountability values; 3. Process values; 4. Governance structures and democratic values; 5. The value reinforcement hypothesis; 6. The complementarity principle; Further problems for democracy administered.

About the author

Anthony Bertelli is the Sherwin-Whitmore Professor in Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, and Professor of Political Science, Bocconi University. He is the author of five books including Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution (2006), is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, and winner of the Herbert Simon Award for career contributions to the study of bureaucracy.

Summary

This book challenges the traditional narrative of public administration. The discretion that modern governments give to administrators not only captures the means to implement policies, but also to make tradeoffs among democratic values. This book is about these value tradeoffs and the challenges they present for representative democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Bertelli, Anthony (New York University) Bertelli, Anthony Michael Bertelli, Anthony Michael (New York University) Bertelli, Anthony Michael (Pennsylvania State Univ Bertelli, Bertelli Anthony Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781107169715
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16971-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political structures: democracy, Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Political structures / systems: democracy, Public administration / Public policy