Public administration questions:
Answer three of the five questions:
1. Discuss the various ways bureaucracy can be controlled in a democracy like the United States. Are these controls adequate? If so why? If not why? Be sure your argument is supported by data and/ or examples.
2. What are some of the major problems encountered in the collection, storage, and dissemination of information in a government bureaucracy?
3. Cite the different types of regulatory agencies in the federal government, the processes they use to formulate and promulgate regulations, and the principal mechanisms used to enforce the regulations.
4. Discuss the nature of the relationships among federal, state and local governments. From where do they get their authority to govern? What specifically are they authorized to do? Do they work together or independently of one another?
5. Outline the major element of agency communications – both within and outside the agency, informal and formal – that can make the difference an agency’s success and an agency’s failure. What elements do you think are most important? Why?
Your really only suppose to use these books below for reference, but you can use others just not too much. If you have any questions feel free to message me. Thanks
Textbook:
Donald F. Kettl. Politics of the Administrative Process. Fifth Edition. Washington, D.C.; CQ Press, 2011.
Suggested readings for books
R. Douglas Arnold. The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven and London; Yale University Press, 1990.
Douglas Brinkley. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, New York; HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
Robert Caro. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York City. New York; Random House, 1974.
Timothy Conlan. New Federalism: Intergovernmental Reform from Nixon to Reagan. Washington, DC; The Brookings Institution, 1998.
Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America. There are many edition of this classic book
Martha Derthick, Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government. Washington, DC; Brookings Institution, 1990.
A. Lee Fritschler and James M. Hoefler. Smoking and Politics: Policy Making and the Federal Bureaucracy. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J; Prentice Hall, 1996.
Robert Gates. Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. New York; Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
Hugh Heclo. A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington. Washington, DC; The Brookings Institution, 1977.
Robert A. Katzman, Regulatory Bureaucracy: The Federal Trade Commission and Anti-Trust. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980.
Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan. New York; The Free Press, 1991.
James P. Pfiffner. The President, the Budget, and Congress. Boulder, Co; Westview Press, 1979.
Gordon W. Prange. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Eric Redmond. The Dance of Legislation. Seattle, WA; University of Washington Press, 2001. Originally published in 1973 by Simon and Schuster.
Robert Reich. Locked in the Cabinet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1997.
Randall B. Ripley and Grace A. Franklin. Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Public Policy. Homewood, IL: The Dorsey Press, 1976.
John A. Rohr. Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice. Lawrence, KS; University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Emanuel S. Savas. Privatization: The Key to Better Government. Chatham, N.J; Chatham House, 1987.
John T. Tierney. Postal Reorganization: Managing the Government’s Business. Boston; Auburn House, 1981.
James. Q. Wilson. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It.
New York; Basic Books, 2000.
Bob Woodward. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. New York; Simon & Schuster, 2006.