Hugh Heclo
Biographic Data
| ID | 292557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Heclo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Heclo |
| SIGNATURE | HECLO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Illusion of Presidential Government
Thinking Institutionally
This article studies how to think institutionally. It examines what this particular line of thinking means, and sketches the coherence and significance of mental life inside any and all such institutions. The second half of the article is focused on determining why thinking institutionally is important
The Mixed Legacies of Ronald Reagan
As with all important leaders, Ronald Reagan's legacy is a complex thing. It is a mixture of intended accomplishments and unintended by‐products, of actions taken and things left undone. Although partisans push for simple verdicts, the best way of honoring Reagan's memory is to try to offer an honest, well‐rounded assessment of his lasting impact on our national political life. I assess the bequest of Reagan's presidency to the future under eight…
Christianity and American Democracy
Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other over the years, and how their relationship is changing in the present day. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in Americ…
Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)
Is America a Christian Nation
Journal Article Is America a Christian Nation? Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University and currently serves on the international Scholars' Council advising the Librarian of Congress. His most recent book is Christianity and American Democracy published by Harvard University Press. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarte…
Is the Body Politic Dying? A Review Essay
Journal Article Is the Body Politic Dying? A Review Essay Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University. He is author of numerous books and articles and is contributing coeditor of the 2003 volume, Religion Returns to the Public Square. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 118, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 491–496,…
What Government Can Do
Journal Article What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality: Why Government Succeeds and Why it Fails Get access What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality by Benjamin I. Pageand, James R. Simmons. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000. 409 pp. $29.00.Why Government Succeeds and Why it Fails by Amihai Glazer and Lawrence S. Rothenberg. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2001. 204 pp. $35.00. Hugh Heclo …
Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails by Amihai Glazer and Lawrence S. Rothenberg
The Spirit of Public Administration
A lifetime award can be a mixed blessing. As my daughter Ashley has observed, a lifetime award means you must really be getting old. I think she has decided it means entering the mode that my computer calls, “stand-by, energy saver.” Then again, last week at dinner my wife Beverley said, “I don't mean this to sound morbid, but I don't know a lot of what you've done to get this award. Don't you think it would be a good idea to write out your obitu…
Religion and Public Policy
One way of approaching the following essays is to pause here at the beginning and consider the peculiarity of the conversation we will be overhearing. In this volume we will be listening to a group of scholars who are Catholic, Episcopal, mainline Protestant, evangelical, and secularist in their varied backgrounds. They are considering the place of religion in public policymaking. The peculiarity arises if we think about American public life hist…
The New Dollars and Dreams
Values Underpinning Poverty Programs for Children
Values create a framework through which the American public gives meaning to particular concepts and events. To better understand the values underlying public support for poverty programs for children, this article examines public attitudes toward children, poverty, and government. Although Americans continue to view helping children as a top policy priority, there is ambivalence with regard to poor children because of their inevitable connection…
Growing Income Inequalities in America? A Review Essay
The Sixties' False Dawn
Writing in 1978 about the 1960s, William McLoughlin saw America in the midst of the fourth Great Awakening in our history. Awakenings are “periods of cultural revitalization that begin in a general crisis of beliefs and values and extend over a generation or so, during which time a profound reorientation in beliefs and values takes place. Revivals alter the lives of individuals; awakenings alter the world view of a whole people or culture.” To pu…
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States
Foreword Michael J. Lacey Part I. Knowledge and Government: 1. Social investigation, social knowledge, and the state: an introduction Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner 2. The science of the legislator: the Enlightenment heritage Donald Winch Part II. Empiricism and the New Liberalism: 3. Experts, investigators, and the state in 1860: British social scientists through American eyes Lawrence Goldman 4. The world of the bureaus: government and the…
Gray Agendas
Apsa Awards and Recipients
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Head Start
Policy Planning Organizations
Bureaucratic Politics and National Security
Explores the development and implementation of national security policy from the perspective of the bureaucratic politics paradigm
The In-and-Outer System
Americans have created a unique approach to staffing the top of government. To be sure, the line between political and administrative functions is ambiguous in every nation, and it has become ever more troublesome as governments have expanded the scope of their activities in the postwar period. 1 The uniqueness of the American approach lies in peopling this vague realm of political administration the positions of executive leadership with an asso…
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
General Welfare and Two American Political Traditions
Journal Article General Welfare and Two American Political Traditions Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is professor of government at Harvard University and former senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His most recent books are A Government of Strangers and Policy and Politics in Sweden. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 2, Spring 1986, Pages 179…
Contradictions of the Welfare State.Claus Offe , John Keane
The Private Government of Public Money
Comparative Public Policy
Thinking Institutionally
This article studies how to think institutionally. It examines what this particular line of thinking means, and sketches the coherence and significance of mental life inside any and all such institutions. The second half of the article is focused on determining why thinking institutionally is important
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States
Foreword Michael J. Lacey Part I. Knowledge and Government: 1. Social investigation, social knowledge, and the state: an introduction Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner 2. The science of the legislator: the Enlightenment heritage Donald Winch Part II. Empiricism and the New Liberalism: 3. Experts, investigators, and the state in 1860: British social scientists through American eyes Lawrence Goldman 4. The world of the bureaus: government and the…
State Structure and the Asymmetrical Society
Political Executives and the Washington Bureaucracy
Journal Article Political Executives and the Washington Bureaucracy Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He is the author of Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden, Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America (with Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Carolyn Teich Adams), and the recently published A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington, f…
Bureaucracy and Public Policy in Neocorporatist Settings
The Mixed Legacies of Ronald Reagan
As with all important leaders, Ronald Reagan's legacy is a complex thing. It is a mixture of intended accomplishments and unintended by‐products, of actions taken and things left undone. Although partisans push for simple verdicts, the best way of honoring Reagan's memory is to try to offer an honest, well‐rounded assessment of his lasting impact on our national political life. I assess the bequest of Reagan's presidency to the future under eight…
The In-and-Outer System
Americans have created a unique approach to staffing the top of government. To be sure, the line between political and administrative functions is ambiguous in every nation, and it has become ever more troublesome as governments have expanded the scope of their activities in the postwar period. 1 The uniqueness of the American approach lies in peopling this vague realm of political administration the positions of executive leadership with an asso…
The Spirit of Public Administration
A lifetime award can be a mixed blessing. As my daughter Ashley has observed, a lifetime award means you must really be getting old. I think she has decided it means entering the mode that my computer calls, “stand-by, energy saver.” Then again, last week at dinner my wife Beverley said, “I don't mean this to sound morbid, but I don't know a lot of what you've done to get this award. Don't you think it would be a good idea to write out your obitu…
Frontiers of social policy in Europe and America
Religion and Public Policy
One way of approaching the following essays is to pause here at the beginning and consider the peculiarity of the conversation we will be overhearing. In this volume we will be listening to a group of scholars who are Catholic, Episcopal, mainline Protestant, evangelical, and secularist in their varied backgrounds. They are considering the place of religion in public policymaking. The peculiarity arises if we think about American public life hist…
Values Underpinning Poverty Programs for Children
Values create a framework through which the American public gives meaning to particular concepts and events. To better understand the values underlying public support for poverty programs for children, this article examines public attitudes toward children, poverty, and government. Although Americans continue to view helping children as a top policy priority, there is ambivalence with regard to poor children because of their inevitable connection…
General Welfare and Two American Political Traditions
Journal Article General Welfare and Two American Political Traditions Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is professor of government at Harvard University and former senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His most recent books are A Government of Strangers and Policy and Politics in Sweden. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 2, Spring 1986, Pages 179…
The Politics of Planning in France and Britain
Is America a Christian Nation
Journal Article Is America a Christian Nation? Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University and currently serves on the international Scholars' Council advising the Librarian of Congress. His most recent book is Christianity and American Democracy published by Harvard University Press. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarte…
The Sixties' False Dawn
Writing in 1978 about the 1960s, William McLoughlin saw America in the midst of the fourth Great Awakening in our history. Awakenings are “periods of cultural revitalization that begin in a general crisis of beliefs and values and extend over a generation or so, during which time a profound reorientation in beliefs and values takes place. Revivals alter the lives of individuals; awakenings alter the world view of a whole people or culture.” To pu…
War, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Power
Policy Planning Organizations
Comparative Poverty and Welfare Policy
Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden
Frontiers of social policy in Europe and America
The Politics of Planning in France and Britain
A government of strangers
The Private Government of Public Money
War, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Power
Political Executives and the Washington Bureaucracy
Journal Article Political Executives and the Washington Bureaucracy Get access Hugh Heclo Hugh Heclo HUGH HECLO is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. He is the author of Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden, Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America (with Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Carolyn Teich Adams), and the recently published A Government of Strangers: Executive Politics in Washington, f…
Comparative Public Policy
Social Security and National Policy
Bureaucratic Politics
State Structure and the Asymmetrical Society
Village Life in Civil Service Society
The Treasury is responsible for managing the economy, departments for managing their subject matter. Since the Second World War, this theoretical distinction has been increasingly accepted by both sides and it has contributed much to the improved spirit of co-operation between Treasury and spending departments. Yet relationships between the two also constitute a mixed-motive game. Each can both help and harm the other immeasurably. They need each…
Pesc and Parliament
British government during the last ten years has been particularly fecund with new mechanisms in the expenditure process. Claims for these innovations vary from the totally euphoric to the utterly cynical; a recent PESC white paper has been variously described as ‘probably the most important state document of the year’ and ‘flogging a dead mouse’.1
The Earthly City
If nothing else , the preceding chapters should have helped dispel the simplistic view held by many outsiders and a few exministers: the expenditure process does not turn on a minister successfully putting his case to the Treasury. We have tried to show how a vast amount of expenditure business is conducted between Treasury and department officials, men who are familiar with each other and each other’s strategies. Over most of this bargaining, mi…
The Nuclear Family
No one doubts that H.M. Treasury plays the central role in the expenditure process. But beyond this simple and important statement lie vast, uncharted realms of political life. One way to begin coming to grips with this ‘most British institution’ might be to list the Treasury’s formal powers. However, as one zealous Parliamentary committee discovered, definitions of these powers are scarcely to be found in documents, much less statutes. ‘What is …
The Politics of Advice
The problematic survival of the CPRS in its present form and with its existing personnel is not so important as the issues it raises. Whether or not the CPRS endures for any length of time, its initial problems and experiences are invaluable to anyone interested in Her Majesty’s government. No post-war reform has more directly highlighted the private relations of those who claim to exercise supreme power. The politics of advice is a permanent fea…
Kinship and Culture
The part of society that interests us is government. Within that sphere we ask: Who matters most? How are they related? Who owes what to whom and how are these obligations repaid? This is kinship. Culture comprises the standards through which these relationships are regulated. How do participants structure competition and facilitate co-operation? What are the ties that bind and the feuds that divide? How is the new accommodated to the old?
Idylls of the Constitution
Continuity and chance have been our themes. But which is which and is either improvement? And, more important, can there be improvement? There has been no shortage of brave new styles, white-hot technological revolutions, and new looks in British government. We began our research against the soot-caked façade of Whitehall; as we finish, the black smudgy face has been sandblasted into its original, pristine appearance. Even the Treasury building i…
There Must Be a Better Way
To ask ‘how shall public money be spent’ and ‘what should government do’ are kindred, though not identical, questions. Decisions about public expenditure shade imperceptibly into decisions about public policy and more subtly still into judgements on the general welfare of society. No person in the British Isles is immune from the consequences of these decisions. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experime…
The Private Government of Public Money
Bureaucracy and Public Policy in Neocorporatist Settings
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare
Governments Under Stress
People, Positions, and Power
Journal Article People, Positions, and Power: The Political Appointments of Lyndon Johnson, by Richard L. Schott and Dagmar S. Hamilton ; America's Unelected Government: Appointing the President's Team, by Bruce Adams, J. Jackson Walter, John W. Macy and G. Calvin Mackenzie, Eds. Get access People, Positions, and Power: The Political Appointments of Lyndon Johnson by Richard L. Schott and Dagmar S. Hamilton. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, …
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