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A Public Manager Looks Back: What I Wish I'D Been Taught, Dan H. Fenn
A Public Manager Looks Back: What I Wish I'D Been Taught, Dan H. Fenn
New England Journal of Public Policy
The author, a practitioner-teacher of public administration, writes that the special context of government in the United States, whether federal, state, or local, needs to be specifically explored by schools for would-be public managers. The constitutionally established system of fractionated power at once makes government jobs extraordinarily difficult and provides great opportunities for those who see themselves as partners in the policy-making process and want to put their stamp on the events of their times. Despite the view of the general public, government is made to order for entrepreneurs who are adept at accreting and maintaining power regardless of the …