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American Administrative Capacity - Decline, Decay, and Resilience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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American Administrative Capacity - Decline, Decay, and Resilience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This volume proposes a capacity-centered approach for understanding
American bureaucracy. The administrative institutions that made the
country a superpower turned out to be fragile under Donald Trump's
presidency. Laboring beneath systematic accusations of deep
statism, combined with a market oriented federal administration,
bureaucratic capacity manifested its decay in the public health and
constitutional cataclysms of 2020, denting America's global
leadership and contributing to its own people's suffering. The
authors combine interviews with a historical examination of federal
administrative reforms in the backdrop of the recent pandemic and
electoral tumult to craft a developmental framework of the ebb and
flow of capacity. While reforms, large and small, brought about
professionalization and other benefits to federal administration,
they also camouflaged a gradual erosion when anti-bureaucratic
approaches became entrenched. A sclerotic, brittle condition in the
government's capacity to work efficiently and accountably arose
over time, even as administrative power consolidated around the
executive. That co-evolutionary dynamic made federal government
ripe for the capacity bifurcation, delegitimization, and
disinvestment witnessed over the last four years. As the system
works out the long-term impacts of such a deconstruction, it also
prompts a rethinking of capacity in more durable terms. Calling
attention to a more comprehensive appreciation of the dynamics
around administrative capacity, this volume argues for Congress,
citizens, and the good government community to promote capacity
rebuilding initiatives that have resilience at the core. As such,
the book will be of interest to citizens, public reformers, civic
leaders, scholars and students of public administration, policy,
and public affairs.
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