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Experts in government : the deep state from Caligula to Trump and beyond / Donald F. Kettl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kettl, Donald F., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in public and nonprofit administration, 2515-4303.
- Cambridge elements. Elements in public and nonprofit administration, 2515-4303
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government consultants.
- Public administration--Decision making.
- Public administration.
- Specialists.
- Expertise--Political aspects.
- Expertise.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (81 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- From Caligula and the time of ancient Rome to the present, governments have relied on experts to manage public programs. But with that expertise has come power, and that power has long proven difficult to hold accountable. The tension between experts in the bureaucracy and the policy goals of elected officials, however, remains a point of often bitter tension. President Donald Trump labeled these experts as a 'deep state' seeking to resist the policies he believed he was elected to pursue-and he developed a policy scheme to make it far easier to fire experts he deemed insufficiently loyal. The age-old battles between expertise and accountability have come to a sharp point, and resolving these tensions requires a fresh look at the rule of law to shape the role of experts in governance.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Experts in Government: The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond
- Contents
- 1 Paradoxes
- The Historical Roots of the Rule of Law
- Bureaucratic Experts and the Proxy War between Government's Size and Power
- 2 Power
- Trump and Control
- Austin and Competence
- The Dilemma of Control and Capacity
- 3 Law
- The Chinese Roots of Bureaucracy
- The Roman Rule of Law
- The Greek Foundation for Experts
- 4 Knowledge
- Formalizing the Roman Rule of Law
- Rediscovering the Lost Rule of Law
- The Bridge to the Enlightenment
- 5 Institutions
- The Rise of the British Civil Service
- The Birth of the American Civil Service System
- The Fundamentals of the American Civil Service System
- 6 Ripening
- The Growth of the Civil Service
- The 1949 Classification Act
- Ripening Tensions
- Bureaucracy and the "Good Life"
- Ratcheting Up Political Responsiveness
- Carter's Modernization of the Civil Service
- 7 Sclerosis
- Sclerosis of Ideology
- Sclerosis of Process
- Bureausclerosis in Hiring
- Sclerosis from Special Preferences
- Sclerosis from Unions
- Sclerosis of Politics
- Sclerosis: Trump's Counter-attack
- 8 Mission
- Building Trust by Transforming the Public Service
- Nongovernmental Experts Shape Government Policy
- Making Mission Matter
- 9 Accountability
- The Quest for Balance in Controlling Experts
- Accountability and Politics in Twenty-First-Century America
- References
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781009276115
- 1009276115
- 9781009276122
- 1009276123
- 9781009276085
- 1009276085
- OCLC:
- 1481792057
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