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Author : Dennis Frank Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521547229
Argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies.
Author : Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr.
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506348896
Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role of bureaucratic values.
Author : Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135027292
Although a powerful, independent bureaucracy poses a threat to democracy, it is indispensable to its proper functioning. This book provides an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy and is essential reading for students of sociology, political science and public administration. It is designed to guide students through the maze of classical and modern theories on the topic, to give them basic information on the historical developments in this area and the present them with case histories of the actual relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in democratic societies.
Author : Douglas Yates
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674086112
Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of "bureaucratic democracy," in which governmental decisions increasingly are made in bureaucratic settings, out of the public eye. He describes the rational, selfinterested bureaucrat as a "minimaxer," who inches forward inconspicuously, gradually accumulating larger budgets and greater power, in an atmosphere of segmented pluralism, of conflict and competition, of silent politics. To make the policy process more competitive, democratic, and open, Yates calls for strategic debate among policymakers and bureaucrats and insists that bureaucrats should give a public accounting of their significant decisions rather than bury them in incremental changes. He offers concrete proposals, applicable to federal, state, and local governments, for simplifying the now-chaotic bureaucratic policymaking system and at the same time bolstering representation and openness. This is a book for all political scientists, policymakers, government officials, and concerned citizens. It may well become a classic statement on the workings of public bureaucracy.
Author : Kenneth J. Meier,Laurence J. O'Toole
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801883563
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Author : Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135027308
Although a powerful, independent bureaucracy poses a threat to democracy, it is indispensable to its proper functioning. This book provides an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy and is essential reading for students of sociology, political science and public administration. It is designed to guide students through the maze of classical and modern theories on the topic, to give them basic information on the historical developments in this area and the present them with case histories of the actual relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in democratic societies.
Author : Judith Gruber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520330351
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
Author : Susan L. Moffitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107065222
This book challenges the convention that government bureaucrats seek secrecy and demonstrates how participatory bureaucracy manages the tension between bureaucratic administration and democratic accountability.
Author : David Beetham
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0816629390
What is bureaucracy? Are people right to see it as synonymous with red-tape, feather-bedding and inefficiency? Can it be controlled by politicians, or made more responsive to citizens? Is it only confined to the public sector, or is it pervasive throughout all modern organizations? These are only some of the questions addressed in David Beetham's concise and wide-ranging study. This second edition provides a clear guide through the disciplines of economics, sociology and political science, and through competing social theories, including structural, cultural and rational choice approaches. It also offers its own synthesis which goes beyond them. The second edition has been revised and updated in the light of recent academic and political developments. For anyone who wants a lucid introduction to the meaning and significance of bureaucracy, and its relation to democracy, this book is essential reading.
Author : Joel D. ABERBACH,Robert D. Putnam,Bert A. Rockman,Joel D Aberbach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674020047
In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth.
Author : B. Dan Wood,Richard W. Waterman
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032586623
Offering readable case studies and well-paired figures and tables (presented in both technical and nontechnical fashion), Bureaucratic Dynamics uses principal-agent theory to explain how the public policy system works.
Author : Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317867234
First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to the authors’ research the ideas are restructured around a particular kind of institutional public choice method, recognizing the value of instrumental models as a mode of thinking clearly about the manifold complexities of political life.
Author : Saqib Iqbal Qureshi
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544509618
A democracy should reflect the views of its citizens and offer a direct connection between government and those it serves. So why, more than ever, does it seem as if our government exists in its own bubble, detached from us? In reality, our democracy is not performing as it should, which has left us fed up with a system we no longer trust. Moreover, we lack a mechanism to fix what's broken, because there is no incentive for politicians and civil servants to make government more accountable, efficient, and representative. Saqib Iqbal Qureshi is calling on his fellow citizens to assert their voice in the dialogue of democracy. In The Broken Contract, he puts forth solutions-many involving easy-to-implement technologies. It's up to us to turn the ship around. If you're looking for the best way to start a conversation with your elected and unelected officials, this is the book you need.
Author : Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : 0710200536
Author : Ali Farazmand
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761906094
The success or failure of empires, nation-states, and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. In this provocative and timely volume, editor Ali Farazmand examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats and how they affect modern governance. This book is organized around the major themes of professionalism, bureaucracy, governance, and the relationship between career bureaucrats/higher civil servants and political appointees/politicians under presidential and parliamentary systems. After introducing the basic elements of bureaucracies in Part I, the book discusses the relations between bureaucrats and politicians in presidential systems in Part II as well as in parliamentary systems in Part III. This original and up-to-date book will fill a gap in the literature on the relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in modern governance and public administration. It can be used as a primary or supplementary text at the undergraduate and graduate level for those interested in public administration, comparative public policy, political science, and government.