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Kettl (2021) Chapter 7 highlights how budget processes in administration are examined in detail here. It emphasizes budget allocation, resource distribution, also political decision-making, conflict resolution, and prioritization within governmental bodies. This section explores the difficulties of managing resources amidst conflicting needs, the involvement of diverse parties in the budgetary procedure, and how budget choices influence public policy and governance. It stresses the balance between politics, administration, and financial accountability, in influencing governmental decisions and results.
Chapter 8 emphasizes the importance of carrying out policies by not only obeying instructions from higher authorities, but also by turning overarching policy objectives into practical programs that can be implemented on the ground level successfully. It points out the difficulties encountered in the implementation process such as coordinating actions among agencies and addressing unexpected issues while also managing stakeholder expectations. Additionally, Kettl (2021) talks about how administrative discretion plays a role and highlights the significance of public administrators, in interpreting and adjusting policies to suit real-world circumstances. This chapter highlights the importance of implementing policies to achieve their objectives and emphasizes that shortcomings, during this phase, can compromise even the best-designed policies' effectiveness social norms surrounding teamwork, sportsmanship, and organized settings are seen as advantageous.
The experience of the Haakenson's serves as a reminder of the serious impact of not planning finances well and the limitations in public assistance programs such as Medicaid when it comes to meeting the ongoing care requirements of elderly individuals. Despite their attempts to safeguard their ancestral farms and their heritage value in the family line, the expenses associated with prolonged care jeopardize their inheritance. Highlighting the financial challenges that numerous small family farmers encounter. The article emphasizes the fact that public funds are crucial, but sometimes not enough to cater to the increasing need for long-term care service especially for individuals whose wealth is mainly invested in noncash assets such, as farmland.
This article also brings attention to the barriers explored in Kettl's(2021) research. Especially the way government policies and rules impact individual financial planning decisions. For example the Medicaid "look back period" is a rule designed to safeguard against public fund misuse. It can put families such as the Haakensons, in challenging situations by making them decide between ensuring essential care and safeguard their family assets for future generations. This highlights the significance of measures that safeguard not just public assets but also take into account the varied financial situations of the individuals they aim to support.
In the end, the Haakensons' situation reflects a problem in public service the struggle between handling public assets and fulfilling the personal requirements of individuals in society. As discussed by Kettl (2021) public administrators face the challenge of managing this conflict by juggling efficiency demands with fairness and political practicality. The Haakensons' narrative serves as an illustration of how these issues play out in reality and underlines the importance of having well-thought-out policies that cater to the specific needs of all citizens, especially those, in disregarded communities.
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Reference:
Kettl, D. F. (2021). Politics of the administrative process Donald F. Kettl (8th ed.). CQ Press, an Imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc.
Kim, J., & Evans, T. (2024, September 3). The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home. NPR.