Donald F. Kettl
Auteur de System under Stress
A propos de l'auteur
Donald F. Kettl is professor and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Œuvres de Donald F. Kettl
The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them (2008) 16 exemplaires
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America (Interpreting American… (2002) 15 exemplaires
The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transference of Governance (2000) 15 exemplaires
Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence (2016) 4 exemplaires
Deficit Politics: Public Budgeting in Its Institutional and Historical Context (New Topics in Politics) (1992) 4 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kettl, Donald F.
- Date de naissance
- 1952-02-09
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Études
- Yale University (PhD|1978)
Yale University (MA|1976)
Yale College (BA|1974) - Professions
- University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Political Science and Robert A. Fox Professor of Leadership Fels Institute of Government
- Organisations
- American Society for Public Administration
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
American Political Science Association - Prix et distinctions
- Donald C. Stone Award of the American Society for Public Administration for significant contributions to the field of intergovernmental management (2005)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Membres
- 198
- Popularité
- #110,929
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 53
Here's the gist of the book:
* Progressives instituted rational bureaucracy based on standard operating procedures
* This works for regular, repeated services regardless of difficulty (vending machine -> taxes in, services out)
* Wicked problems (like disasters) confound the vending machine
* Services are provided by a mix of levels of government and public/private partnerships, contracting
* Wicked problems must be solved through methods employed by rocket scientists, namely awareness of network of organizations and lack of a central authority
There's more to it than that, but there's the gist. "Be more like rocket scientists" and "leverage networks" is not advice. Kettl does a good job of identifying the core structural problem with our bureaucracy. But he does not elaborate on - even hypothetically - what we should do to fix these problems. Some people will probably read the book and think that he does, but he just gives little teasers instead, like a doctor telling you that you need to be healthier.
Is it thought provoking? Yes. And for that reason alone I hope that our civil leaders and legislators read it. But there's little in the "how" in this book.… (plus d'informations)