How Long to Read A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration

How Long Does it Take to Read A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 12 minutes to read A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration by Anthony Bertelli

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What is public administration and what does it do? Though government bureaucracy is much maligned, could the modern state exist without it? Why is public administration and bureaucracy so misunderstood? By invoking enduring ideas about representation and democracy, Anthony Bertelli sheds light on these ellusive questions in a concise but nuanced narrative that relates the history of the modern bureaucratic state to contemporary efforts to treat government more like a business. The idea of a principal-agent relationship is the book's guiding theme to help readers understand the ongoing debates about how best to manage public affairs in a democracy. Bertelli begins by explaining how a principal-agent relationship can describe the democratic connection between citizens and administrators through their elected representatives. He then confronts the question of efficiency by considering the experience of the New Public Management movement, which focused on introducing incentives and market competition into public management, in the United States and internationally. The book next turns to the political sport of big-government-bureaucracy-bashing and how it misinterprets modern public governance structures, explaining the latter as the essay progresses. The book concludes with a discussion of how contemporary public administration scholars and public intellectuals do not do an effective job of countering such arguments and how this was quite different in the work their counterparts before World War II. Public administration, Bertelli argues, has lost its pragmatism in the face of political attacks.

How long is A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration?

A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration by Anthony Bertelli is 128 pages long, and a total of 33,024 words.

This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours to read A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration aloud.

What Reading Level is A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration?

A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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Where Can I Buy A Citizen's Guide to Public Administration?

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