Hugh Heclo

David Brooks discusses On Thinking Institutionally in a recent column. Read it here! David Brooks Column A brilliant look at institutions as popular as professional sports and as austere as the Supreme Court, all through the lens of what it means to â€œthink institutionally.â€ The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of â€œcriticalâ€ thinking to convince Western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking â€œaboutâ€ institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to â€œthink institutionally.â€ His account ranges from â€œrespect for the gameâ€ of baseball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and the concept of â€œofficeâ€ and â€œprofessionalism.â€ Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think and act institutionally. What do these things have in common?

On Thinking Institutionally

C. Eugene Steuerle

Edward Gramlich

Demetra Smith Nightingale

Takes a visionary look at what it will take to create a constructive national dialog on political choices that the next decade will bring. Explores a sweeping range of concerns and describes eight proposals that would return ownership of the government to the American majority, with chapters on the government's changing capacity to respond, the changing political process, the role of the public sector, and the changing shape of US federalism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Responsive Democracy and Changing Expectations

The Government We Deserve

Arnold J. Heidenheimer

Carolyn Teich Adams

The third edition of this established text adds coverage of Japan to the United States, Britain, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. It provides a comparative introduction to the formulation, substance and implementation of public policy to its range of coverage.

The Politics of Social Choice in America, Europe, and Japan

Comparative Public Policy

How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt. Shifting attention away form the well-publicized actions of the President, High Heclo reveals the little-known everyday problems of executive leadership faced by hundreds of appointees throughout the executive branch. But he also makes clear why bureaucrats must deal cautiously with political appointees and with a civil service system that offers few protections for broad-based careers of professional public service. The author contends that even as political leadership has become increasingly bureaucratized, the bureaucracy has become more politicized. Political executives—usually ill-prepared to deal effectively with the bureaucracy—often fail to recognize that the real power of the bureaucracy is not its capacity for disobedience or sabotage but its power to withhold services. Statecraft for political executives consists of getting the changes they want without losing the bureaucratic services they need. Heclo argues further that political executives, government careerists, and the public as well are poorly served by present arrangements for top-level government personnel. In his view, the deficiencies in executive politics will grow worse in the future. Thus he proposes changes that would institute more competent management of presidential appointments, reorganize the administration of the civil service personnel system, and create a new Federal Service of public managers.

Executive Politics in Washington

A Government of Strangers

Aaron Wildavsky

Community and Policy Inside British Politics

The Private Government of Public Money (by) Hugh Heclo and Aaron Wildavsky

Community and Policy inside British Politics

The Private Government of Public Money

Wilfred M. McClay

Suntrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities Wilfred M McClay

Professor Hugh Heclo

Despite talk of a "naked public square," religion has never really lost its place in American public life. As the twenty-first century opened, it was re-emerging in unexpected and paradoxical ways. Religious institutions were considered for expanded roles in welfare and education, at the same time that the limits of religious pluralism–-as, for example, in the relation of Islam to American values—became a question of urgent public concern. Religion Returns to the Public Square;Faith and Policy in America explores how and why religion has to be mixed up with American politics. Uncovering philosophical, historical, legal, and social roots of this relationship, these essays go beyond hot-button issues to reflect on the current interactions and future possibilities of religion and politics in America. Table of ContentsPart I: The Big Picture1. An Introduction to Religion and Public Policy Hugh Heclo2. Two Concepts of Secularism Wilfred M. McClay3. The Religious Conscience and the State in American Constitutional Law, 1789-2000 Charles J. Reid, Jr.4. What is a Public Religion? Jose CasanovaPart II: Religion in Political Action5. Faith and Morals: Religion in American Democracy Wilson Carey McWilliams6. Faith in Politics A. James Reichley7. Mainstream Protestantism, 'Conservative' Religion, and Civil Society D. G. HartPart III: Policy Applications8. American Catholicism, Catholic Charities U.S.A., and Welfare Reform John A. Coleman, S.J.9. Charitable Choice: Bringing Religion Back into American Welfare Stanley W. Carlson-Thies10. Public Education Changes Partners Charles Glenn11. With God on Their Side: Religion and American Foreign Policy William Martin

Faith and Policy in America

Religion Returns to the Public Square

Hugh Heclo

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