Background
Williams, Walter was born on December 13, 1932 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Walter and Rosalie (Lazarus) Williams.
(Is the federal government inept? Walter Williams says yes...)
Is the federal government inept? Walter Williams says yes. Thanks to Ronald Reagan's ill-conceived cutbacks, reliable policy advice is no longer available to the president. The result has been the S&L bailout, the HUD scandal - mismanagement on an unprecedented scale. In this book Willims aims to show how Reagan, the first truly anti-analytic president, decimated the ranks of policy analysts and special information experts in the name of trimming back big government. Williams sets the stage and provides programme notes that explain both the crucial role of advisors and policy analysts in presidential policy making and where the system has gone wrong. "Governments succeed or fail on information, analysis, and advice", Williams writes, "but the system that provides our information analysis has been gutted". In "Mismanaging America" he not only reveals the linkage between the US ailing policy process and the anaemic, inept government that created the S&L and HUD scandals, but proposes urgently needed reforms to fight America's decline.
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( After the big” decisions are made in legislatures and ...)
After the big” decisions are made in legislatures and executive offices, what is done by those who implement and operate social service programs will determine their success or failure. Yet, over and over again, the managers of public organization disregard or handle poorly the critical problems involved in starting and developing new programs or in modifying existing ones. This book presents a new decision-making rationale-the implementation perspective-as the basic guide to social service program management. The cardinal principle is that the central focus of policy must be at the point of service delivery. Here is where management must redirect its attention. The demand is to concentrate on the hard, dirty, time-consuming work of building the local delivery capacity needed to provide better social services and to implement new program decisions over time. The Implementation Perspective is a message for our times. Even those who would continue the nation's effort to meet its social obligations are finding that simply calling for big new programs and more spending is no longer satisfying. Moreover, Proposition 13, the balanced budget movement, inflation, and compelling demands for new funds in such areas as energy, now squeeze social programs. New directions may have to come, not from new funds, but from rethinking and redirection and, more to the point, the better management of existing programs.
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(Federal disaster policy is an important but overlooked as...)
Federal disaster policy is an important but overlooked aspect of federal action that has provided a rich arena for pursuing our more general research interests concerning federal program implementation and management. May brought to the research task both a familiarity with the broad issues of federal disaster policy-having recently completed a book (May, 1985) about disaster relief policy and politics-and an understanding of the day-to-day workings of emergency management at the federal level. Williams provided the "imple mentation perspective" that undergirds the book, having previously devel oped and applied the perspective in two books (Williams, 1980a, b) about social programs. The study focuses upon the intergovernmental implementation of selected emergency management programs, primarily as played out at the federal and state levels. Our fieldwork and resultant description of disaster policy implementation allow us: (I) to analyze the implementation of selected aspects of disaster policy and to discuss federal management choices in this area; (2) to gain a greater understanding of federal program implementation under "shared governance"-a term we develop more fully in the book in referring to programs under which the federal and subnational governments share responsibility for program funding and management; and (3) to con sider the relevance of the lessons of earlier social program implementation research to a very different policy setting. Many individuals assisted us with this research. Our greatest debt is to those federal and state officials who took time from their busy schedules to offer their implementation perspectives about emergency management.
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Williams, Walter was born on December 13, 1932 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Walter and Rosalie (Lazarus) Williams.
Bachelor of Business Administration, University Texas, 1955. Master of Business Administration, University Texas, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1960.
Assistant professor Indiana University, Bloomington, 1960-1964. Associate professor University Kentucky, Lexington, 1964-1965. Chief research and plans division Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, 1967-1969.
Director Institute Public Policy and Management, Seattle, 1980-1984. Professor public affairs University Washington, since 1970. Visiting scholar London School of Economics, 1983, University Bergen, 1988.
(Federal disaster policy is an important but overlooked as...)
( After the big” decisions are made in legislatures and ...)
(Is the federal government inept? Walter Williams says yes...)
Served to 1st lieutenant United States Army, 1955-1957. Member Association Public Policy Analysis and Management (policy council 1987-1989), American Political Science Association.
Married Jacqueline Block, January 30, 1958. Children: Stuart, David.