Roundtable: Speaking Truth to Power When Power Does Not Care: Lessons for Public Administration in the Current World

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Political institutions often fail to provide clear policy goals, rarely allocate adequate resources, and do not give the bureaucracy sufficient autonomy. This roundtable seeks to explore how a rational bureaucracy responds to these limitations.

Section

• Midwest Caucus for Public Administration / Midwest Caucus for Public Administration

Chair

• Miyeon Song, University of South Carolina

Participants

• Karen M. Hult, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Lael Keiser, University of Missouri

• Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Kenneth Meier, American University, Cardiff University, Leiden University