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George Frederickson

H. George Frederickson

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H. George Frederickson, who died on July 24, 2020, was a Governing contributor. He was the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.

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?
Innovations are not organizational creations, writes H. George Frederickson, although they may be helped or hindered by organizations.
There is a rapidly declining relationship between public management and jurisdiction. The fix is collaboration.
The application of market-like competition to the public sector has had mixed results, writes H. George Frederickson.
Politics and administration in the penal state
Public administration finds itself in a vortex of two particularly pernicious trends: a political assault on local knowledge and professional competence.