The Fraught Balance of Politics and Bureaucrats in American Public Service

Mordecai Lee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

390 Seiten

2026 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-6134-8 (ISBN)

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Since the founding of the American civil service in 1883, there have been ongoing tensions between the powers and roles of politicians versus those of permanent and apolitical civil servants. A civil service is a merit-based personnel system that hires based on qualifications. Civil servants then have permanent jobs. At the same time, presidents appoint several thousand senior managers to head federal agencies to implement the president's policies. The inherent tensions between these two democratic goals have waxed and waned. They escalated sharply during President Trump's second term. He viewed agencies as under his direct control and that civil servants who disagreed with his policies should be fired. The book presents the context, rationale, development, and history of these tensions within American public service.This book relates to political science, American history, and public administration. It is intended for use as a textbook, by researchers, and for academic libraries.

Mordecai Lee is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, where he taught for 22 years. He has authored 11 books and 75 articles. Lee received a PhD in public administration from Syracuse University, USA. Before his university appointment, he was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, legislative assistant to a Member of Congress, elected to five terms in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and executive director of a faith-based nonprofit. His academic interests are in American history, government PR, and nonprofit management. Cambridge Scholars Publishing has published five collections of his writings on these subjects: A History of Public Administration in the United States, Congress Wrestling with the Rise of the Administrative State During the 20th Century, A History of Government Public Relations in the United States, The Emergence and Scope of the Voice of Government, and A History of the American Nonprofit Sector.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2026
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-6134-3 / 1036461343
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-6134-8 / 9781036461348
Zustand	Neuware