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The Machinery of Government - Public Administration and the Liberal State (Hardcover)
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The Machinery of Government - Public Administration and the Liberal State (Hardcover)
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In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that
elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully
executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the
modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number
of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great
deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil
servants. Yet many political philosophers have not taken this model
up, and the field has ignored the important role played by the
class of "permanent" state officials-the "deep state" as some call
it-in liberal states. In most liberal democracies for example, the
central bank is as independent as the supreme court, yet deals with
a wide range of economic, social, and political issues. How do
these public servants make these policy decisions? What normative
principles inform their judgments? In The Machinery of Government,
Joseph Heath attempts to answer these questions. He looks to the
actual practice of public administration to see how normative
questions are addressed. More broadly, he attempts to provide the
outlines of a "philosophy of the executive" by taking seriously the
claim to political authority of the most neglected of the three
branches of the state. Heath both provides a corrective to the
prevailing tendency to underestimate the contribution of civil
servants to the success of liberal-democratic welfare states, and
suggests a more satisfactory account of the principles implicit in
public administration.
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