This book is about the implementation and performance of President Obama's economic stimulus program and how insights from this experience can inform public administration and public policy. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was an initiative of historic proportions to prop up...

The policy agenda of the Obama administration, reinforced by responses to the most severe recession since the 1930s, has the potential to reshape American federalism as profoundly as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Important elements of the administration's health care, high speed rail, energy...

Accountability has become an iconic concept in public management -- never more so than in the implementation of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), or the Obama Administration's stimulus. With more than $800 billion and economic growth on the line, the Administration placed...