Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernardo Zacka (0000-0002-6037-3015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-42 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-125131 |
| OpenAlex | W4214517273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 77 |
Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen from view, and surveys four burgeoning areas of research. These pertain to the legitimacy of public administration, to the articulation of standards of good government distinct from good public policy, to the analysis of how the moral agency of bureaucrats is implicated and undermined by the everyday operation of bureaucratic agencies, and to how we should conceptualize the state when we apprehend it through the seemingly banal routines of administration. What emerges from this body of work is a picture of the executive bureaucracy as an object of normative, critical, and conceptual inquiry on a par with the other two branches of government, the legislature and the judiciary
Administration (probate law · Agency (philosophy · Bureaucracy · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Legislature · Legitimacy · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public service · Social science · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Public Administration and Democracy
Moral dispositions of street-level youth volunteers
Digital Regulation and Questions of Legitimacy
Noninferiority and state officials
Delegation without a coherent nation
Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process
The Bureaucratic Origins of Political Theory
There and back again
Islands of power. Democratic legitimacy, autonomous organisms, and their conflict in Mexico
The Political Morality of Associational Life
Accountability, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Civil-Military Relations
Technical Legitimacy
Critical geographies of discretion in the environmental bureaucracy
Authorized Discretion
Tocqueville and the Bureaucratic Foundations of Democracy in America
Scope-shifting
Good Governance
Not Yours to Sell
Do Governments Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is? Policy Adoption And Administrative Resource Provision in 15 OECD Countries
A Pedagogical Exploration of Horror as a Teaching Tool for Ethics Using the Case of Saw IV
Law’s Abnegation
Representation Failure
The Quality of Government
Democratic Governance
At the Heart of the State
Varieties of Police Behavior
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?
Control through Communication
Paper Tiger
Navigation by Judgment
Policy Entrepreneurship at the Street Level
Street-Level Bureaucracy
“Institutional Corruption” Defined
Anthropology in the margins of the state
The Work of Politics
A Theory of Justice
Interdependence and Democratic Legitimation
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
The Policy State
When the State Meets the Street
Why People Obey the Law
Reasons for Welfare
Bringing the State Back In
Policy Makes Mass Politics
Political corruption the internal enemy of public institutions
The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government
Practices of Freedom
Political order and political decay
Cops, Teachers, Counselors
Disciplining the Poor
Reassembling the Social
On Categories and the Countability of Things Bureaucratic
Governance-driven democratization
Work and the welfare state
A New Public Administration
Republicanism
Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand
Response to Pettit, Estlund, and Christiano
Democracy and Bureaucracy
Introduction
The Uncertain Future of Administrative Law
Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited
In Praise of Bureaucracy
The Democratic Reconstruction of the Hegelian State in American Progressive Political Thought
Beyond Markets
The Conditions of Care
Administrative Discretion and Active Representation
Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, or What's Wrong with Political Science and What to Do About it
Deliberative Bureaucracy
The Principle of Restraint
Fairness, Respect, and the Egalitarian Ethos
The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship
The architectures of waiting
Theories of Institutional Corruption
A Public Ethics of Care for Policy Implementation
An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity
Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Accountability
What Is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Government Institutions
Quality of Government
Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
Hegel's Theory of Modern Bureaucracy
From Max Weber
Government of Paper
Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |