Active Duty Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship

by Schaefer, Robert Martin; Schaefer, David Lewis; Blitz, Mark; Brand, Donald R.; Bryner, Gary C.; Eden, Robert; Green, Richard T.; Landy, Marc K.; Lawler, Peter Augustine; Maletz, Donald J.; Nichols, David K.; Nigro, Lloyd G.; Rabkin, Jeremy; Richardson, Wi

• ISBN13: 9780847686469
• ISBN10: 0847686469
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In Active Duty: Public Administration as Democratic Statesmanship, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil service under the Constitution. The common concern that unites the otherwise diverse approaches of the authors is the conception of public administration as a particular form of political activity. The contributors relate administrative issues to the broader questions of political life, such as political judgment and responsibility, the Constitution and constitutionalism, and the promotion of human liberty and the common good. They aim to encourage the administrator to become a democratic statesman. Present and prospective American civil servants, as well as political scientists and political philosophers, will find this book of interest.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Some Fundamental Concerns
Introduction	p. 3
American Statesmanship: Old and New	p. 5
Toqueville on Administration and for Administrators	p. 33
Public Administration and Policy Deliberation: The Case of Global Warming	p. 59
Impartiality and Administrative Statesmanship	p. 91
Theodore Lowi and the Administrative State	p. 113
Administration, Political Institutions, and the Constitution
Introduction	p. 149
Bureaucratic Idealism and Executive Power: A Perspective on The Federalist's View of Public Administration	p. 151
Administrative Responsibility and the Separation of Powers	p. 177
The Rhetorical Presidency and the Eclipse of Executive Power in Woodrow Wilson's Constitutional Government in the United States	p. 195
Presidents and Their Cosmopolitan Advisers: The Nixon-Kissinger Dialogue	p. 219
Limiting Bureaucratic Discretion: Competing Theories of Administrative Law	p. 237
Rebuilding Public Administration
Introduction	p. 261
The Place of Constitutionalism in the Education of Public Administrators	p. 263
The Limits of Ethics: Revisiting the Origins of the America Regime	p. 283
Bureaucratic Morality in the United States	p. 305
Responsibility and Public Service	p. 321
Index	p. 339
About the Contributors	p. 345
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