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Politics and Administration at the Top - Lessons from Down Under (Paperback)
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Politics and Administration at the Top - Lessons from Down Under (Paperback)
Series: Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies
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A key problem in all democratic governments is eliciting
appropriate responsiveness to democratically based policy
preferences from the inevitably powerful bureaucracy. What is the
most effective relationship between elected officials and the
bureaucracy? How can the strengths that each brings to policy
making and implementation be combined to reach the best results for
the citizenry? Delmer Dunn takes a comparative and institutional
approach to examine these questions. He focuses on the two levers
of power within modern democracies, the elected party politician
and the professional state bureaucrat, using Australia as his
example. Dunn uses interviews with Cabinet ministers, members of
their staffs, and department heads of two recent governments in
Australia to see how ministers seek to provide political direction
to the bureaucracy. He examines the extent to which they succeed
and how their direction is both influenced by and acted on by the
departments. Dunn's analysis provides a look at high-level
relationships between politicians and executive departments in one
democratic government and offers insights into issues of
accountability and responsibility in democratic governments. His
findings, based on his in-depth look at a government that blends
many features of both US and British governments, reveal the
fundamentals that are necessary to make this key relationship work
well and are thus pertinent to public administration in all
democracies.
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