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Paperback The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State Book

ISBN: 019762832X

ISBN13: 9780197628324

The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State

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In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdate. The vast number of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil servants. Yet many political philosophers have not taken...

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