Beyond Public Administration

<p>How can public administration (P.A.) nudge government to govern fundamentally better in terms of policy? How critical is P.A. contemplation and nudges – prods shoves or hammer blows - to government-in-context?</p><p>In this book David John Farmer argues that government-in-context refers to government-in-totality to what governs even if not called government and to what constrains government action. Constricting contextual features are infiltration exfiltration and post-truth raising questions relating to democracy. Infiltration into government is the action of gaining access that benefits big corporations their owners and billionaires; findings are that it also mal-nudges government action through such elements as big money lobbying tax breaks and embrace of the free market. Reacting to factors like growing income inequality what is explained as exfiltration occurs for middle- and lower-income people. Post-truth is noted as the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2016 describing people concerned less with truths than with opinions. The book analyzes three practical hammer blow and 18 shove nudges to contradict the mal-nudges. </p><p><i>Beyond Public Administration</i> will be of interest to P.A. scholars and graduate students more specifically those interested in critical normative or interpretive scholarship focused on various aspects of P.A. theory governance and practical management.</p>