Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration
<jats:p> Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen...
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| author | Zacka, Bernardo |
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| description | <jats:p> Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen from view, and surveys four burgeoning areas of research. These pertain to the legitimacy of public administration, to the articulation of standards of good government distinct from good public policy, to the analysis of how the moral agency of bureaucrats is implicated and undermined by the everyday operation of bureaucratic agencies, and to how we should conceptualize the state when we apprehend it through the seemingly banal routines of administration. What emerges from this body of work is a picture of the executive bureaucracy as an object of normative, critical, and conceptual inquiry on a par with the other two branches of government, the legislature and the judiciary. </jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1486842023-03-24T03:29:21Z Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration Zacka, Bernardo Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science <jats:p> Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen from view, and surveys four burgeoning areas of research. These pertain to the legitimacy of public administration, to the articulation of standards of good government distinct from good public policy, to the analysis of how the moral agency of bureaucrats is implicated and undermined by the everyday operation of bureaucratic agencies, and to how we should conceptualize the state when we apprehend it through the seemingly banal routines of administration. What emerges from this body of work is a picture of the executive bureaucracy as an object of normative, critical, and conceptual inquiry on a par with the other two branches of government, the legislature and the judiciary. </jats:p> 2023-03-23T17:50:56Z 2023-03-23T17:50:56Z 2022 2023-03-23T17:00:14Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148684 Zacka, Bernardo. 2022. "Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration." Annual Review of Political Science, 25 (1). en 10.1146/ANNUREV-POLISCI-051120-125131 Annual Review of Political Science Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Annual Reviews Annual Reviews |
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