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 Leadership from public managers is necessary because without leadership public organizations will never mobilize themselves to accomplish their mandated purposes, let alone figure out how best to do that. Leadership from public managers is necessary because the elected chief executive can provide that leadership for only a few of the many agencies and programs for which he or she is responsible.  Essay 19 The Odyssey of Senior Public Service Leaders in agencies experience the frustration of being far from the sources of power and decision or being left on their own. When Jane Alexander received the appointment to head the National Endowment of the Arts, a mentor told her, Always talk to the President (Alexander 2000, 31).  Like many agency heads, beyond a few brief meetings, always polite but noncommittal, she found herself on her own. When she asked Bruce Lindsey, Clintons senior domestic policy advisor, what the administration expected of me. `Stay out of the headlines, Bruce replied. I took that to mean no negative press, as it would reflect badly on the President (Alexander 2000, 65). The rule to stay out of trouble is the first rule for agency heads (Heymann 1987)…. 四川大学 Sichuan University Understanding Politics and Administration Pedagogical Purpose: (1) Be familiar with the Basic Concepts in politics and administration (2) Be familiar with the English jargons (3) Develop relational learning habit  Essay 1 Globalization and Public Administration Globalization means many things to many people. Globalization as internationalization, that is, identities and communities that extend beyond national jurisdictional boundaries . Globalization as border openness, achieved by removing state regulatory barriers and protectionist measures.  Globalization as a continuing process of capital accumulation. Globalization as a phenomenon for understanding global changes in the political economy of nations. Globalization as both a t