Transforming American Governance: Rebooting the Public Square (Transformational Trends in Governance and Democracy)

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Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1 American Governance 3.0: Issues and Prospects......Page 16
2 Administration in the Coming Public Era......Page 53
3 Crises, Governance, and the Administrative State in a Post-Neoliberal World......Page 62
PART I Challenges for a 21st-Century Government......Page 80
4 Experts and the Fiscal Challenge: Strategies of Influence......Page 82
5 Improving Collaboration by Federal Agencies......Page 99
6 Governance Implications of the Bush Administration’s War on Terror......Page 111
PART II Whither American Federalism?......Page 122
7 Effective Governance: Withering Without Federalism......Page 124
8 Collaborative Regional Networked Systems......Page 139
9 Will New State Government Management Models Emerge from the Economic Crisis?......Page 158
10 Turning Citizen “Enragement” into Citizen Engagement: Managing Expectations with Web 2.0 and Social Media......Page 168
11 A New Kind of Public Square forUrban America......Page 182
PART III How Will Government Respond?......Page 198
12 The Horizon Problem in Public Administration: Shifting from Crisis du Jour to Deliberate Management......Page 200
13 Design Lessons for Smart Governance Infrastructure......Page 210
14 Creating and Sustaining Change......Page 226
PART IV Is the Force Already with Us?......Page 260
15 Reforms Needed to Meet Future Challenges......Page 262
16 American Governance: The Role of the White House Staff......Page 285
17 Obama’s Stealth Revolution: Quietly Reshaping the Way Government Works......Page 298
PART V What Does the Future Hold?......Page 304
18 Government at the Edge......Page 306
19 The Millennial Generation......Page 320
20 Leadership-Purpose Chain in Governmental Organizations......Page 335
21 The Evolution of Collaboration......Page 352
Index......Page 364
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 380