Politics, administration, and markets conflicting expectations and accountability
By: Klingner, Donald E.
Contributor(s): Romzek, Barbara S | Nalbandian, John.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Description: p.117-44.Subject(s): Public administration | Accountability
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American Review of Public AdministrationSummary: Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate ways of thinking-as decision-making perspectives-that produce a variety of expectations of accountability, often at odds. It presents a case study involving the contracting out of foster care services in Kansas to illustrate these competing perspectives and examines how market-based challenges to traditional political and administrative perspectives complicate expectations of accountability. The result is a situation in which the challenge of accommodating three cross-cutting expectations of accountability (derived from the three competing perspectives of politics, administration, and markets) makes the already complex job of public management even more difficult. - Reproduced.
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Volume no: 32, Issue no: 2 | Available | AR53472 |
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate ways of thinking-as decision-making perspectives-that produce a variety of expectations of accountability, often at odds. It presents a case study involving the contracting out of foster care services in Kansas to illustrate these competing perspectives and examines how market-based challenges to traditional political and administrative perspectives complicate expectations of accountability. The result is a situation in which the challenge of accommodating three cross-cutting expectations of accountability (derived from the three competing perspectives of politics, administration, and markets) makes the already complex job of public management even more difficult. - Reproduced.
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