Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State - Paperback
Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State - Paperback
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by Joseph Heath (Author)
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 this model up, and the field has ignored the important role played by the class of permanent state officials--the deep state as some
call it--in liberal states.
Government, Joseph Heath attempts to answer these questions. He looks to the actual practice of public administration to see how normative questions are addressed. More broadly, he attempts to provide the outlines of a philosophy of the executive by taking seriously the claim to political
authority of the most neglected of the three branches of the state. Heath both provides a corrective to the prevailing tendency to underestimate the contribution of civil servants to the success of liberal-democratic welfare states, and suggests a more satisfactory account of the principles implicit
in public administration.
Author Biography
Joseph Heath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation, Heath's most recent book is Morality, Competition and the Firm. Heath is also the author of Enlightenment 2.0, winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen prize for Political Writing.
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