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At the beginning of the century, the majority of Americans were
satisfied with the way things were going in the United States. And
then a slow decline began, seemingly uninterrupted by changes in
party or achievements by the White House. As the campaigning for
the next president begins, the question we ask ourselves now is who
will be the most competent leader? In Why Presidents Fail and How
They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck asks another important
question: When did Americans lose faith in their leaders? And how
can they get it back? Kamarack argues that presidents today spent
too much time talking, and not enough time governing. After decades
of "imperial" and "rhetorical" presidencies, we are in need of a
"managerial" president. In her fully readable and accessible book,
she explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political
landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how our next
president can not only recreate faith in leadership, but also run a
competent, successful administration.
The 2020 presidential primaries are on the horizon and this third
edition of Elaine Kamarck's Primary Politics will be there to help
make sense of them. Updated to include the 2016 election, it will
once again be the guide to understanding the modern nominating
system that gave the American electorate a choice between Donald
Trump and Hilary Clinton. In Primary Politics, political insider
Elaine Kamarck explains how the presidential nomination process
became the often baffling system we have today, including the
"robot rule." Her focus is the largely untold story of how
presidential candidates since the early 1970s have sought to alter
the rules in their favor and how their failures and successes have
led to even more change. She describes how candidates have sought
to manipulate the sequencing of primaries to their advantage and
how Iowa and New Hampshire came to dominate the system. She
analyzes the rules that are used to translate votes into delegates,
paying special attention to the Democrats' twenty-year fight over
proportional representation and some of its arcana. Drawing on
meticulous research, interviews with key figures in both parties,
and years of experience, this book explores one of the most
important questions in American politics-how we narrow the list of
presidential candidates every four years.
At the beginning of the century, the majority of Americans were
satisfied with the way things were going in the United States. And
then a slow decline began, seemingly uninterrupted by changes in
party or achievements by the White House. As the campaigning for
the next president begins, the question we ask ourselves now is who
will be the most competent leader? In Why Presidents Fail and How
They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck asks another important
question: When did Americans lose faith in their leaders? And how
can they get it back?Kamarack argues that presidents today spent
too much time talking, and not enough time governing. After decades
of ""imperial"" and ""rhetorical"" presidencies, we are in need of
a ""managerial"" president. In her fully readable and accessible
book, she explains the difficulties of governing in our modern
political landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how
our next president can not only recreate faith in leadership, but
also run a competent, successful administration.
As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect
more, the way government delivers services and results is changing
rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering
hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop
services and cross-agency results. This translation implies
collaboration--within agencies; among agencies; among levels of
governments; and among the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
The first part of this book describes what networks and
partnerships are. The second part presents case examples of how
collaborative approaches have actually worked in the public sector,
when they should be used, and what it takes to manage and
coordinate them.
As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect
more, the way government delivers services and results is changing
rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering
hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop
services and cross-agency results. This translation implies
collaborationOCowithin agencies; among agencies; among levels of
governments; and among the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
The first part of this book describes what networks and
partnerships are. The second part presents case examples of how
collaborative approaches have actually worked in the public sector,
when they should be used, and what it takes to manage and
coordinate them."
Advances in information technology are transforming democratic
governance. Power over information has become decentralized,
fostering new types of community and different roles for
government. This volume --developed by the Visions of Governance in
the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government
--explores the ways in which the information revolution is changing
our institutions of governance. Contributors examine the impact of
technology on our basic institutions and processes of governance,
including representation, community, politics, bureaucracy, and
sovereignty. Their essays illuminate many of the promises and
challenges of twenty-first century government. The contributors
(all from Harvard unless otherwise indicated) include Joseph S. Nye
Jr., Arthur Isak Applbaum, Dennis Thompson, William A. Galston
(University of Maryland), L. Jean Camp, Pippa Norris, Anna
Greenberg, Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, David C. King, Jane Fountain,
Jerry Mechling, and Robert O. Keohane (Duke University).
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