The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State Heath Joseph
The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State Heath Joseph In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which…
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The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State Heath Joseph
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 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. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdate.
How do these public servants make these policy decisions? 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.In most liberal democracies for example, the central bank is as independent as the supreme court, yet deals with a wide range of economic, social, and political issues. What normative principles inform their judgments? In