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A 12 page book report, which constitutes an addition to khketti.rtf. This is a longer version of the same paper, as it also includes chapters 2 and 3, as well as 4-7. As with the other paper, this essay gives a chapter-by-chapter summary of chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 from Donald Ketti's text The Transformation of Governance (2002). Each chapter summary is roughly 2 pages long and briefly addresses the chapter content. No additional sources cited.
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File: D0_khkett2.rtf
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As the biblical scholarship shows, the first five books of the Old Testament, the Jewish Torah, are largely a compilation of rules and constitute an early societal attempt at governance
designed specifically to aid ancient Israelites in formulating a culture in keeping religious dogma (Ketti 26). As this suggests, public administration is about how to organize people in order to
do complex tasks that fit with broad, government-defined interests (Ketti 26). A salient point that Ketti makes in this introduction to administrative traditions is that this facet of governance is
not only about "getting government to work well," it is also about managing "the exercise of governmental power" (Ketti 26). From his general discussion of history, Ketti quickly moves
on to address American experience and points out that Americans "have always called on government at the first sign of trouble" (Ketti 27). With this backdrop of historical perspective, Ketti
presents his principal thesis for this work, which is that the American form of public administration springs from tension that evolves between "four fundamentally different intellectual traditions." (Ketti 29). He
then lists these traditions and their principal orientation: 1. a Hamiltonian tradition that seeks an effective government, that promotes top-down governance and that favors as strong executive; 2.
A Jeffersonian tradition that celebrates Americas agrarian roots, that promote bottom-up government, and that seeks a weak executive; 3. a Madisonian tradition that tries to balance political power among competing
forces; and 4. a Wilsonian tradition that prefers to concentrate administrative power in hierarchically structured organizations (Ketti 29). He then goes on to give the specific history and
development of each of these perspectives, while pointing out that these traditions have fueled centuries of debate in American culture and have struggled for over 200 years to resolve their
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