Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Megaphone Bureaucracy: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of the New Normal
By (Author) Dennis C. Grube
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
22nd July 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
Media studies
320.014
Physical Properties
Hardback
232
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
A revealing look at how today's bureaucrats are finding their public voice in the era of 24-hour media Once relegated to the anonymous back rooms of democratic debate, our bureaucratic leaders are increasingly having to govern under the scrutiny of a 24-hour news cycle, hyperpartisan political oversight, and a restless populace that is increasin
Reviews
"Shortlisted for the W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize, Political Studies Association"
"Grubes contribution is to show how civil servants, in an era of bots and deliberate misinformation, can up the volume for veracity, pushing boundaries while not crossing them. Its a message we need to hear."---Drew Fagan, Literary Review of Canada
Author Bio
Dennis C. Grube is lecturer in public policy at the University of Cambridge. A former political speechwriter, he is the author of Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance and At the Margins of Victorian Britain: Politics, Immorality, and Britishness in the Nineteenth Century. He lives in South Cambridgeshire, England.
