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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2004
Contact: Ryan Watson, (202) 347-3190
May 25, 2004 - Washington, DC
- The events of September 11, 2001, brought home to citizens
the need to manage government effectively and efficiently.
More effective government is needed in many areas - such as
protecting the nation from terrorism, delivering medical benefits,
and educating children. Fellows of the National Academy of
Public Administration and other distinguished experts recommend
strategies for managing the federal government to meet 21st
Century challenges in Making Government Manageable: Executive
Organization and Management in the Twenty-First Century,
a new book published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
"Today's challenges demand that
government operate in an effective, coordinated fashion,"
said Thomas H. Stanton, Academy Fellow and co-editor (with
Johns Hopkins Professor Benjamin Ginsberg) of Making Government
Manageable. "However, the fragmentation of government
organization and programs makes harnessing the power of government
more complex than ever." Making Government Manageable
analyzes these issues and provides thoughtful observations
and actionable recommendations for policymakers and public
managers. Authors offer advice and analysis on issues ranging
from trends in citizen participation to improving interagency
and intergovernmental cooperation and how to modernize the
operations of federal field offices.
"Making Government Manageable
moves beyond slogans and hype and toward a comprehensive discussion
of issues that public administrators wrestle with on a daily
basis," said Academy President C. Morgan Kinghorn. "The
Academy's Fellows and authors from Johns Hopkins have woven
together an important resource that should be on the desk
of public administrators-practitioners and academics alike-across
the nation."
The book, available for purchase at
local bookstores and on-line, is based on a conference held
jointly by the Academy's Standing Panel on Executive Organization
and Management and Johns Hopkins' Center for the Study of
American Government. The Academy is a non-profit, non-partisan
organization chartered by Congress to provide advice to government
leaders on management and governance issues. The Academy's
Fellows are elected from the nation's top policymakers, outstanding
public administrators, and distinguished scholars of public
policy or public administration.
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