1st Edition

The End of Government... as We Know it: Making Public Policy Work Making Public Policy Work

By Elaine Ciulla Kamarck Copyright 2007
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

In the last decades of the 20th century, many political leaders declared that government was, in the words of Ronald Reagan, "the problem, not the solution." But on closer inspection, argues Elaine Kamarck, the revolt against "government" was and is a revolt against bureaucracy - a revolt that has taken place in first world, developing, and avowedly communist countries alike. To some, this looks... Read more
The Revolution in Governing. Matching Means to Ends. Democratic Accountability. The Problem With the Bureaucratic Instinct. The Reinvented Public Sector. Government by Network.; Government by Market. Leadership in 21st Century Government.

Biography

Elaine C. Kamarck is lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she was a senior policy adviser to the Clinton administration, where she ran the National Performance Review, and a political columnist for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She is co-editor, with Joseph S. Nye, Jr., of Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age.