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A Report on the Transformation of Governance
Over the last quarter century, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts to reform how they manage their programs. Citizens have de...
Efficient public administration requires a delicate balance between politics, accountability, and performance--bureaucracy must be powerful enough to ...
Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century
An updated edition of the classic text on public administration presents practical steps for managing government effectively in an age of hyperpartisa...
In System under Stress, The Challenge to 21st Century Democracy, Third Edition, Donald F. Kettl looks at the latest stress to hit the systemโthe fin...
Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy brings to life the quest to make better policy with better evidence. This brief book frames the big puzzles...
Public Governance and Private Markets
In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possi...
Why Our Institutions Fail Us and how to Fix Them
Through a series of compelling stories, The Next Government of the United States reveals the increasing complexity of the policy challenges that face ...
Appraising Governmental Reform
The book appraises the many positive management reforms that federal managers have created, assesses the central political and administrative support ...
Why Federalism Doesn't Work
"As James Madison led America's effort to write its Constitution, he made two great inventions-the separation of powers and federalism. The first is m...
How to Recover America s Lost Commitment to Competence
Why big government is not the problem. The Progressive government movement, founded on support from Republicans and Democrats alike, reined in corpora...
Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time. It is unquestionably a huge problem, undermining confidence in our ele...
Implications for Policy and Politics
The Trump Presidency: Implications for Policy and Politics explains the stakes of rapidly unfolding political, governing, and policy changes introduce...
An Owner's Manual
The Clinton administration's National Performance Review of the federal government (also called the Reinventing Government Initiative) is the eleventh...
How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems
In the face of ever more complex societal challenges, this book provides an essential new model for transforming the public sector and getting things ...
A Report on the Next Generation of Environmental Policy
Environmental policy has been the focus of reform efforts for more than a generation. Now policymakers face a new and challenging set of issues: how t...
Building a Government that Works
The authors of this book contend that the civil service system, which was devised to create a uniform process for recruiting high-quality workers to g...
Public Administration for Twenty-first Century America
The theory of public administration has long been based on the notions of hierarchy and authority. However, the way managers actually manage has incre...
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How to Communicate Research in a Way that People Will Read
"There is a tsunami of research being produced by social scientists, and most of them hope that their work will have impact on public policy. This boo...
LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES BEHIND ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR PRESIDENTS IN HISTORY How the Commander-in-Chief commands George W. Bush has surprised even his h...
A Fifth-year Report Card
The Clinton administration has been reinventing the federal government for the last five years. What has this movement produced? And, more important, ...
The Deep State from Caligula to Trump and Beyond
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 c...
(mis?)managing Federal Programs
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A Report Card
A Century Foundation report....
The Search for Balance in American Politics
This Second Edition of Kettl's landmark work on public budgeting has been completely updated and is now part of the "Longman Classics in Political Sci...
This highly acclaimed report measures the distance between the Contract with America and the administrative realities of contemporary American federal...
Keys to High-performance Government
"Explores the potential, strategies, and best practices of high-performance networks while identifying next-generation issues in public sector network...
Buy all 5 titles in the Public Affairs and Policy Administration Series, edited by Don Kettl, and save 10% using ISBN 0-87289-324-3. Books include: O'...
The Battle on Immigration
Who has a right to be in the United States? Who poses a threat to the countryโs values? What steps should the government take to make the right deci...
Stories of a Nation
"Politics involves people, from many backgrounds, struggling to make their voices heard. Real people, telling their stories, reflect our ideals, choic...
The State of the Field
The Contract with America, Devolution, and the Administrative Realities of American Federalism