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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? Th answers are sought in thi… More...

How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? Th 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 createa new Federal Service of public managers. A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington Heclo, Hugh / Steiner, Gilbert Y., Brookings Institution Press<

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ISBN: 9780815735359

Hugh Heclo, Foreword by Gilbert Y. Steiner,Paperback, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Brookings Institution Press Textbooks New Books ~~ Political Science & Government~~ Polit… More...

Hugh Heclo, Foreword by Gilbert Y. Steiner,Paperback, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Brookings Institution Press Textbooks New Books ~~ Political Science & Government~~ Political Process ~~ Leadership A-Government-of-Strangers~~Hugh-Heclo 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? Th 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.<

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1977

ISBN: 0815735359

[EAN: 9780815735359], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 1.95], [PU: Brookings Institution, Washington], Political Science|Political Process|General, Political Science|Political Process|… More...

[EAN: 9780815735359], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 1.95], [PU: Brookings Institution, Washington], Political Science|Political Process|General, Political Science|Political Process|Public Affairs & Administration, Social Science|General, 272 Seiten Das Buch befindet sich in einem ordentlich erhaltenen Zustand; Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 410<

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1977, ISBN: 0815735359

[EAN: 9780815735359], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Brookings Institution, Washington], Political Science|Political Process|General, Political Science|Political Process|Public Affai… More...

[EAN: 9780815735359], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Brookings Institution, Washington], Political Science|Political Process|General, Political Science|Political Process|Public Affairs & Administration, Social Science|General, 272 Seiten Das Buch befindet sich in einem ordentlich erhaltenen Zustand; Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 410<

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