Donald F. Kettl
Autor(a) de System under Stress
About the Author
Donald F. Kettl is professor and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Obras por Donald F. Kettl
The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them (2008) 16 exemplares
The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America (Interpreting American… (2002) 15 exemplares
The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transference of Governance (2000) 15 exemplares
Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence (2016) 4 exemplares
Deficit Politics: Public Budgeting in Its Institutional and Historical Context (New Topics in Politics) (1992) 4 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Kettl, Donald F.
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-02-09
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Educação
- Yale University (PhD|1978)
Yale University (MA|1976)
Yale College (BA|1974) - Ocupações
- University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Political Science and Robert A. Fox Professor of Leadership Fels Institute of Government
- Organizações
- American Society for Public Administration
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
American Political Science Association - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Donald C. Stone Award of the American Society for Public Administration for significant contributions to the field of intergovernmental management (2005)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 26
- Membros
- 198
- Popularidade
- #110,929
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 53
Here's the gist of the book:
* Progressives instituted rational bureaucracy based on standard operating procedures
* This works for regular, repeated services regardless of difficulty (vending machine -> taxes in, services out)
* Wicked problems (like disasters) confound the vending machine
* Services are provided by a mix of levels of government and public/private partnerships, contracting
* Wicked problems must be solved through methods employed by rocket scientists, namely awareness of network of organizations and lack of a central authority
There's more to it than that, but there's the gist. "Be more like rocket scientists" and "leverage networks" is not advice. Kettl does a good job of identifying the core structural problem with our bureaucracy. But he does not elaborate on - even hypothetically - what we should do to fix these problems. Some people will probably read the book and think that he does, but he just gives little teasers instead, like a doctor telling you that you need to be healthier.
Is it thought provoking? Yes. And for that reason alone I hope that our civil leaders and legislators read it. But there's little in the "how" in this book.… (mais)