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Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
John A. Rohr
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Description for Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
Paperback. This text demonstrates how and why public administration in the USA is inevitably and strongly bound up with constitution-making and constitutional governance. The author makes a comparative study of cases found in four countries spanning three centuries. Series: Studies in Government and Public Policy. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPQ; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Public administration as an American profession originated in the early twentieth century with urban reformers advocating the application of scientific and business practices to rehabilitate corrupt city governments. That approach transformed governance in the United States but also guaranteed recurrent debate over the proper role of public administrators, who must balance the often contradictory demands of efficiency and politically defined notions of the public good. Currently the business approach holds sway. Legitimated by Al Gore's National Performance Review, the New Public Management movement promotes entrepreneurs over civil servants, performance over process, decentralization over centralization, and flexibility over rules. John Rohr ... Read more
Public administration as an American profession originated in the early twentieth century with urban reformers advocating the application of scientific and business practices to rehabilitate corrupt city governments. That approach transformed governance in the United States but also guaranteed recurrent debate over the proper role of public administrators, who must balance the often contradictory demands of efficiency and politically defined notions of the public good. Currently the business approach holds sway. Legitimated by Al Gore's National Performance Review, the New Public Management movement promotes entrepreneurs over civil servants, performance over process, decentralization over centralization, and flexibility over rules. John Rohr ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Government and Public Policy
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700611638
SKU
V9780700611638
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About John A. Rohr
John A. Rohr is professor of public administration at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. A recipient of the ASPA Distinguished Research Award, he is the author of six other books, including To Run a Constitution.
Reviews for Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
Relying on a breathtaking range of scholarship, Rohr definitively shows how and why public administration is inevitably and strongly bound up with constitution-making and constitutional governance. This book should forever change mainstream public administrative thought in the United States. DAVID H. ROSENBLOOM, COAUTHOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL COMPETENCE FOR PUBLIC MANAGERS ""Rohr brings us back to the constitutional basics in the United ... Read more