Improving Federal Governance

In 1968, the late Kermit Gordon, then president of The Brookings Institution, asked me to contribute an extended essay on "Managing the Federal Government" to a volume to be entitled Agenda for the Nation (Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1968). The volume was a series of paper...

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Published in:Public administration review 1980-11, Vol.40 (6), p.548-552
Main Author: Bailey, Stephen K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Basic Skills
Bureaucracy
Congressional committees
Effectiveness
Executive branch
Federal government structure
From the Professional Stream
Governance
Government
Government (Administrative Body)
Government bureaucracy
Leadership
Political parties
Public administration
Public policy
United States environmental policy
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Summary:In 1968, the late Kermit Gordon, then president of The Brookings Institution, asked me to contribute an extended essay on "Managing the Federal Government" to a volume to be entitled Agenda for the Nation (Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1968). The volume was a series of papers on domestic and foreign-policy issues prepared for the benefit of whoever would take over as President of the United States in January 1969. What follows is an attempt to update what I then wrote and to defend even more forcefully than I did then the concept that the central problems of governance in the United States are not managerial in a narrow structural sense, but political in a dynamic, consensual sense. I am grateful to The Brookings Institution for their willingness to allow me to use parts of my 1968 paper for this 1980 PAR essay.
ISSN:0033-3352
1540-6210
DOI:10.2307/3110306