Megaphone Bureaucracy (eBook)

Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal

Dennis C. Grube (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18960-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Dennis C. Grube is lecturer in public policy at the University of Cambridge. A former political speechwriter, he is the author of Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance and At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality, and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century. He lives in South Cambridgeshire, England.

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A revealing look at how today's bureaucrats are finding their public voice in the era of 24-hour mediaOnce relegated to the anonymous back rooms of democratic debate, our bureaucratic leaders are increasingly having to govern under the scrutiny of a 24-hour news cycle, hyperpartisan political oversight, and a restless populace that is increasingly distrustful of the people who govern them. Megaphone Bureaucracy reveals how today's civil servants are finding a voice of their own as they join elected politicians on the public stage and jockey for advantage in the persuasion game of modern governance.In this timely and incisive book, Dennis Grube draws on in-depth interviews and compelling case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to describe how senior bureaucrats are finding themselves drawn into political debates they could once avoid. Faced with a political climate where polarization and media spin are at an all-time high, these modern mandarins negotiate blame games and manage contradictory expectations in the glare of an unforgiving spotlight. Grube argues that in this fiercely divided public square a new style of bureaucratic leadership is emerging, one that marries the robust independence of Washington agency heads with the prudent political neutrality of Westminster civil servants. These "e;Washminster"e; leaders do not avoid the public gaze, nor do they overtly court political controversy. Rather, they use their increasingly public pulpits to exert their own brand of persuasive power.Megaphone Bureaucracy shows how today's senior bureaucrats are making their voices heard by embracing a new style of communication that brings with it great danger but also great opportunity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b/w illus. 4 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Accounting • Adobe • Adviser • Advocacy • anonymity • Appointee • assistant secretary • Australian public service • Boris Johnson • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • Cabinet (government) • Cabinet Secretary • Calculation • Career • Case study • civil service • Coalition Government • Criticism • David Runciman • Decision-Making • Democracy • Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation • Donald Trump • Election • Employment • Fake News • figurehead • George W. Bush • Good government • Governance • Governing (magazine) • Government • government agency • Gus O'Donnell • Headline • Her Majesty's Civil Service • Iain Duncan Smith • Institution • James Comey • Jeremy Heywood • Jurisdiction • Ken Henry (public servant) • Leadership Style • Minerals Management Service • Multitude • New Public Management • newspaper • Non-governmental organization • Northcote–Trevelyan Report • open government • Out in Front • Outreach • Parliamentary Budget Officer • Permanent Secretary • plebgate • policy debate • political agenda • Political Campaign • Political criticism • Political Party • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • pollution • Princeton University Press • public administration • Public comment • Public engagement • public figure • Public Interest • Publicity • Public Policy • Public sector • Public speaking • Public sphere • Public Value • Regime • Regulatory Agency • Representative Democracy • Requirement • rhetoric • Risk matrix • Scott Pruitt • select committee • Senior Executive Service (United States) • Separation of Powers • Social Media • Supporter • Tax • technocracy • Thad Allen • The Public Interest • The Washington Post • Twitter • Voting • Westminster system • What Happened • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18960-9 / 0691189609
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18960-4 / 9780691189604