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In recent years, American attitudes about government have become increasingly disaffected and critical. After the 1995 bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City, a newspaper ad sponsored by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees brought to the nation′s attention the heroism of government workers′ rescue efforts, with the reminder that "This is our government."
This volume, the result of collaboration by practicing administrators and academics, explores the current anti-government climate and its effect on the work and working lives of public employees and their relationships with citizens. If offers economic, political, historical, and philosophical perspectives on citizen discontent and tells stories of actual working relationships between public agencies and citizens. The collaborators maintain that while government workers cannot control the economy or the bureaucracy as a whole, they can take practical steps to improve their interactions with citizens.
While many books advise citizens how to get what they want from government, few have been written to help career civil servants work better with citizens. In a time of public negativism, Government Is Us is about building relationships, listening, making connections, and hope.
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Choice Review
King and Stivers have written a public administration polemic intended to account for the antigovernment attitudes they see as characteristic of contemporary politics. The authors begin, as did their forebears in the "New Public Administration" movement some 30 years ago, with an effort to "shift attention in our field away from its fixation on efficiency, professionalism, objectivity, and neutrality." However, while New Public Administrationists urged that basic administrative values such as efficiency and accountability be replaced by social equity and proactive administrative representation of oppressed groups, King and Stivers emphasize citizen involvement as an alternative organizing principle of administration. Genuine citizen participation and better bureaucratic "listening" will, according to the authors, create a more positive and consensual administrative state. The most problematic element of their theme is the assumption that extensive citizen participation in administration creates consensus; exhaustive experience with everything from school choice to farm price supports to welfare reform makes it clear that citizen participation rarely eliminates or even reduces genuine conflict over divisive policies. Surprisingly, King and Stivers decided not to address these current controversies. Nevertheless, the book is well written and presents an argument that should be familiar to students, scholars, and reformers. All levels. M. E. Ethridge; University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Table of Contents
| Part 1 The Anti-Government Context |
| IntroductionCheryl Simrell King and Camilla M Stivers |
| The Anti-Government Era |
| Citizenship and its DiscontentsCamilla M Stivers and Cheryl Simrell King and Renee Nank |
| The Political and Economic Context |
| Government Isn't UsRalph Hummel and Camilla M Stivers |
| The Possibility of Democratic Knowledge in Representative Government |
| Citizens and AdministratorsCheryl Simrell King and Camilla M Stivers |
| Roles and Relationships |
| Part 2 Strategies For Collaboration |
| IntroductionCheryl Simrell King and Camilla M Stivers |
| Strategies for Collaboration |
| Overcoming Administrative Barriers to Citizen ParticipationMary M Timney |
| Citizens as Partners, Not Adversaries |
| At the Nexus of State and Civil SocietyLisa A Zanetti |
| The Transformative Practice of Public Administration |
| The EPA Seeks Its Voice and Role with CitizensWalter W Kovalick Jr and Margaret M Kelly |
| Evolutionary Engagement |
| We Want Your InputDolores Foley |
| Dilemmas of Citizen Participation |
| Working with CitizensRichard C Box and Deborah A Sagen |
| Breaking Down Barriers to Citizen Self-Governance |
| Targeted Community InitiativeJoseph E Gray and Linda W Chapin |
| 'Putting Citizens First!' |
| ConclusionCheryl Simrell King and Camilla M Stivers |
| Strategies for an Anti-Government Era |
