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100			_aDurant, Robert F.
245			_aWhither power in public administration? attainment, dissipation, and loss
260			_c2015
300			_ap.206-218.
362			_aMar-Apr
520			_aNorton Long's 1949 essay, Power and Administration, has a complicated legacy. First, analysis reveals both support for and important refinements of Long's arguments since the article's publication. Second, Long's claim has proven problematic that competition among agencies for power would bring more coordination and a cross-agency sense of purpose to the federal government. Third, the bureaucratic pluralism that he explained and defended produced special interest biases that were off-putting to large segments of citizens and thus helped create an unsupportive political environment for needed capacity building in the federal government. Fourth, by not considering how institutions coevolve, Long failed to warn that horizontal power building by individual agencies would provoke efforts by elected officials to enhance their control over bureaucracy in ways that, over time, diminished their collective sources of power. Finally, much remains to be done before what Long called a realistic science of administration incorporating the budgeting of power exists in public administration. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aPublic Administration Review
909			_a108344
999			_c108339 _d108339