Democracy Administered Panel Discussion
Channel: Penn State School of Public Policy
Date: 2022-10-14

The School of Public Policy and the Rock Ethics Institute present a discussion inspired by Anthony Bertelli’s book, Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government. 

In Democracy Administered, Anthony Bertelli, Sherwin-Whitmore Professor of Liberal Arts and professor of public policy and political science explains the role public administration plays in representative democracies and how democratic values factor into the structures and processes of public policymaking.

The panel uses the book as a starting point to explore how democracy and representative government carry on within the complexities of the modern administrative state.

Co-sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries, the forum is moderated by Ben Jones, assistant director of the Rock Ethics Institute.

Joining Bertelli and Jones on the panel are John Christman, director of the Penn State Humanities Institute and professor of philosophy, political science, and women’s studies; Lee Ann Banaszak, head of the Penn State Department of Political Science and professor of political science, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; and Sean Gailmard, professor of political science at the University of California Berkeley.