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100			_aKlingner, Donald E.
245			_aPolitics, administration, and markets conflicting expectations and accountability
260			_c2002
300			_ap.117-44.
362			_aJun
520			_aPolitics 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.
650			_aPublic administration
650			_aAccountability
700			_aRomzek, Barbara S.
700			_aNalbandian, John
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a53035
999			_c53035 _d53035