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Madison's Managers Public Administration and the Constitution

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ISBN-10: 0801883199

ISBN-13: 9780801883194

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Anthony M. Bertelli, Laurence E. Lynn, Laurence E. Lynn

List price: $32.00
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Combining insights from traditional thought and practice and from contemporary political analysis, Madison's Managers presents a constitutional theory of public administration in the United States. Anthony Michael Bertelli and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. contend that managerial responsibility in American government depends on official respect for the separation of powers and a commitment to judgment, balance, rationality, and accountability in managerial practice. The authors argue that public management -- administration by unelected officials of public agencies and activities based on authority delegated to them by policy makers -- derives from the principles of American constitutionalism,…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Anthony Michael Bertelli is an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. holds the George H. W. Bush chair and is a professor of public affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A & M University.

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. is Chair and professor of Public Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, and co-author of Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research.