H. George Frederickson was a Management Insights contributor. He is the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.
Public administration finds itself in a vortex of two particularly pernicious trends: a political assault on local knowledge and professional competence.
Bringing measures of performance to bear on matters of accountability is clearly a good idea. So, asks H. George Frederickson, how can we make modern applications of accountability viable?
There is a rapidly declining relationship between public management and jurisdiction. The fix is collaboration.
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