Democracy administered : how public administration shapes representative government / Anthony Michael Bertelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertelli, Anthony Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Evaluation.

Public administration.

Democracy.

Representative government and representation.

Government accountability.

Administrative agencies--Management.

Administrative agencies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

How does representative government function when public administration can reshape democracy? The traditional narrative of public administration balances the accountability of managers, a problem of control, with the need for effective administration, a problem of capability. The discretion modern governments give to administrators allows them to make tradeoffs among democratic values. This book challenges the traditional view with its argument that the democratic values of administration should complement the democratic values of the representative government within which they operate. Control, capability and value reinforcement can render public administration into democracy administered. This book offers a novel framework for empirically and normatively understanding how democratic values have, and should be, reinforced by public administration. Bertelli's theoretical framework provides a guide for managers and reformers alike to chart a path toward democracy administered.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

1 Democracy from Public Administration

The Values of Representative Government

Characters

Representatives

Policy Workers

Managers

Champions

The Argument in Brief

Plan of the Book

2 Accountability Values

Who Closed the Port of Lampedusa?

Theories of Electoral Accountability

The Selection View of Electoral Accountability

The Sanctioning View of Electoral Accountability

Institutions, Parties, and Electoral Accountability

Deviations from the Mandate and Conditional Representation

Accountability Errors

Identifiability Errors

Evaluability Errors

Citizens' Heuristics for Retrospection

Blame Avoidance Strategies

Conclusion

Appendix: Data, Methods, and Detailed Results

3 Process Values

Pluralism

Epistemic Arguments

Deliberative Arguments

Majoritarianism

Collective Rationality

What Do Citizens Want from Their Democracy?

4 Governance Structures and Democratic Values

The Champion's Dilemma

The Fundamental Problem of Public Administration

Accountability to Representative Government

Autonomy from Representative Government

Evaluating Governance Structures Democratically

Controlled Agency

The Impossibility of Neutral Controlled Agency

The BAMF-Affäre

Managed Agency

Ingredients of Managerialism

An Escape from Prison Bureaucracy?

Representative Agency

Bringing Citizens Back In

Budgets of the People, by the People, for the People

Independent Agency

Credibility and Independence

The Costs of Independence

Art's Length

Appendix: The Accountability Index

5 The Value Reinforcement Hypothesis.

Value Reinforcement as a Positive Claim

Accountability and Process Values in New Public Management

Institutional Reinforcement in Britain and the Netherlands

Behavioral Reinforcement among European Managers

A Research Agenda for Value Reinforcement

Theory Development

Empirical Study

6 The Complementarity Principle

The State and Responsible Policy Work

Legitimating State Power

American Public Administration and the State

Governance Structures and Representation

The Idea of Responsible Policy Work

Responsible Value Reinforcement

The Complementarity Principle

7 Further Problems for Democracy Administered

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-316-76694-2

1-316-75516-9

OCLC:

1276855133