The Suspect Handmaiden: The Evolution of Politics and Administration in the American State
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Moynihan, Donald P.; Ingraham, Patricia W.
署名单位：
University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02282.x
发表日期：
2010
页码：
S229-S237
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摘要：
Scholars of an earlier era predicted a more secure role for the administrative state in American political culture. This vision overlooked a historical irony that governs the relationship between politics and administration. For American society, the administrative state is a suspect handmaiden. Citizens have looked to public administration to enable extraordinary growth while simultaneously distrusting it. In recent decades, these contradictory trends have grown. The growth of the state, increased polarization, and political attacks on government have produced a set of values, perspectives, and capabilities that often do not mesh with one another or with many governmental activities. As a result, we find outdated mechanisms of accountability, politicization, and a broader illegitimacy that threatens the capacity of the state to act effectively.