Valuing Bureaucracy

The Case for Professional Government

Paul R. Verkuil (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-17659-1 (ISBN)

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In this book, Verkuil uses his inside perspective on government to examine the increasing impact of private contractors on governance. Outsourcing of government functions is on the rise and is of concern to scholars and practitioners, and the reputation of the author will bring considerable attention to this book.

To be effective, government must be run by professional managers. When decisions that should be taken by government officials are delegated to private contractors without adequate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Verkuil uses his inside perspectives on government performance and accountability to examine the tendencies at both the federal and state levels to 'deprofessionalize' government. Viewing the turn to contractors and private sector solutions in ideological and functional terms, he acknowledges that the problem cannot be solved without meaningful civil service reforms that make it easier to hire, incent and, where necessary, fire career employees and officials. The indispensable goal is to revitalize bureaucracy so it can continue to competently deliver essential services. By highlighting the leadership that already exists in the career ranks, Verkuil senses a willingness, or even eagerness, to make government, like America, great again.

Paul R. Verkuil is President Emeritus of the College of William and Mary, Virginia, and served as Dean of both Cardozo School of Law, New York and Tulane University Law School, Louisiana. He served five years in the Obama administration as Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the US. He is the author of Outsourcing Sovereignty (Cambridge, 2007).

1. Introduction and overview; 2. The new learning on outsourcing sovereignty; 3. The growth of contracting out in government; 4. The consequences of federal contractor government; 5. State examples of government failure; 6. Why professionals in government matter; 7. The civil service and its reform; 8. Living with and improving the multi-sector workforce; 9. In sum – reprofessionalize government.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-107-17659-X / 110717659X
ISBN-13	978-1-107-17659-1 / 9781107176591
Zustand	Neuware