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A Government of Strangers - Executive Politics in Washington (Paperback)
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A Government of Strangers - Executive Politics in Washington (Paperback)
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"How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington
bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure
administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis
of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the
participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and
the strategies they adopt. Shifting attention away form the
well-publicized actions of the President, High Heclo reveals the
little-known everyday problems of executive leadership faced by
hundreds of appointees throughout the executive branch. But he also
makes clear why bureaucrats must deal cautiously with political
appointees and with a civil service system that offers few
protections for broad-based careers of professional public service.
The author contends that even as political leadership has become
increasingly bureaucratized, the bureaucracy has become more
politicized. Political executives-usually ill-prepared to deal
effectively with the bureaucracy-often fail to recognize that the
real power of the bureaucracy is not its capacity for disobedience
or sabotage but its power to withhold services. Statecraft for
political executives consists of getting the changes they want
without losing the bureaucratic services they need. Heclo argues
further that political executives, government careerists, and the
public as well are poorly served by present arrangements for
top-level government personnel. In his view, the deficiencies in
executive politics will grow worse in the future. Thus he proposes
changes that would institute more competent management of
presidential appointments, reorganize the administration of the
civil service personnel system, and create a new Federal Service of
public managers. "
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