Bureaucracy And The Policy Process

Author : Dennis D. Riley,Bryan E. Brophy-Baermann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742538117

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Bureaucracy and the Policy Process by Dennis D. Riley,Bryan E. Brophy-Baermann Pdf

The central role that bureaucracy plays in the policy process is played by individuals, namely, by subject matter experts and managers we call political executives. The context in which these executives play their roles is defined by three key forces--the organizational environment of bureaucracy itself; our governing philosophy stressing responsiveness, respect for individual rights, and accountability; and the demands of the people and the institutions those people have created to govern themselves. This book provides an in-depth look at each of these forces, with chapters specifically devoted to how bureaucrats interpret their role in the policy process, how the organizational environment influences their ability to play that role, and most of all, to the interactions between bureaucrats and the institutions of what we call the Constitutional government--the President, the Congress, and the Courts.

Author : Edward C Page,Bill Jenkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191515613

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Policy Bureaucracy by Edward C Page,Bill Jenkins Pdf

Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. Long before laws are drafted, policy commitments made, or groups consulted on government proposals, officials will have been working away to shape the policy into a form in which it can be presented to ministers and the outside world. Policy bureaucracies - parts of government organizations with specific responsibility for maintaining and developing policy - have to be mobilized before most significant policy initiatives are launched. This book describes the range of work policy officials do. The 140 civil servants interviewed for this study included officials who helped originate policies which were subsequently taken over as manifesto commitments by the Labour Party; officials who helped devise the formula by which billions of pounds are allocated to local government in grants; and also officials who recommended to the Secretary of State that a controversial publisher be allowed to take over a national newspaper. The background and career paths of middle-ranking officials show them to be a diverse group who do not tend to develop long-term subject specialisms. The instructions to which these officials work - whether coming from ministers or senior officials - are often very broad and leave much to personal interpretation. Policy Bureaucracy goes on to examine how ministers and senior officials affect the work of middle ranking officials and the cues policy bureaucrats use to develop policy. The analytical approach adopted in the book is derived from Alvin Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy and his elaboration of Max Weber's notion that hierarchy and expertise place a fundamental tension at the heart of modern bureaucracies. In the UK this tension is handled by combining 'invited authority' with 'improvised expertise'. The book also explores other models of handling this tension in political systems in Europe and the USA.

Author : Michael Hill,Frederic Varone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317860365

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The Public Policy Process by Michael Hill,Frederic Varone Pdf

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for a sixth edition, The Public Policy Process provides

Author : Michael Hill,Frédéric Varone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000364729

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The Public Policy Process by Michael Hill,Frédéric Varone Pdf

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policymaking, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for an eighth edition, The Public Policy Process provides: Clear exploration, using many illustrations, of how policy is made and implemented; Examines challenges to effective policy making in critical areas – such as inequality and climate change – including the influence of powerful interests and the Covid-19 pandemic; New material on unequal democracies, interest groups influence, behavioural policy analysis, global policies and evidence-based decision making; Additional European and comparative international examples. This text is essential reading for students of public policy, public administration and management, as well as more broadly highly relevant to related courses in health and nursing, social welfare, environment, development and local government.

Author : Eduardo Araral
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415782456

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Routledge Handbook of Public Policy by Eduardo Araral Pdf

This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including: Theory - from rational choice to the new institutionalism; Frameworks - network theory, advocacy coalition and development models; Key stages in the process - formulation, implementation and evaluation; Agenda setting and decision making; The roles of key actors and institutions. This is an invaluable resource for all scholars, graduate students and practitioners in public policy and policy analysis.-- Publisher description.

Author : Randall B. Ripley,Grace A. Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020775741

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Policy Implementation and Bureaucracy by Randall B. Ripley,Grace A. Franklin Pdf

Author : Francis Edward Rourke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013910669

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Bureaucracy, Politics, and Public Policy by Francis Edward Rourke Pdf

Author : George A. Krause,Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472024043

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Politics, Policy, and Organizations by George A. Krause,Kenneth J. Meier Pdf

This groundbreaking work provides a new and more accurate guide to the interactions of bureaucracies with other political institutions and the public at large."--Jacket.

Author : Michael Hill,Peter L. Hupe
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761966293

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Implementing Public Policy by Michael Hill,Peter L. Hupe Pdf

Bringing the major current insights in implementation research and theory together, Public Policy, Implementation and Governance reviews the literature on public policy implementation, relating it to contemporary developments in thinking about governance. The text stresses the continuing importance of a focus upon implementation processes and explores its central relevance to the practice of public administration. In light of the changing nature of governance, Hill and Hupe suggest strategies for both future research on and management of public policy implementation. Their basic approach is two-fold: firstly, to understand the process of implementation and secondly, to address how one might control and affect this process. Re-exploring the state of the art of the study of implementation as a sub-discipline of political science and public administration, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in public policy, social policy, public management, public adminstration and governance. `This is an excellent and much needed book. Hill and Hupe have provided a well written and highly accessible account of the development of implementation studies which will be immensely valuable to everyone concerned with understanding implementation in modern policy making.' - Professor Wayne Parsons, University of London

Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765627438

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Public Policy Making by Larry N. Gerston Pdf

This brief text identifies the issues, resources, actors, and institutions involved in public policy making and traces the dynamics of the policymaking process, including the triggering of issue awareness, the emergence of an issue on the public agenda, the formation of a policy commitment, and the implementation process that translates policy into practice. Throughout the text, which has been revised and updated, Gerston brings his analysis to life with abundant examples from the most recent and emblematic cases of public policy making. At the same time, with well-chosen references, he places policy analysis in the context of political science and deftly orients readers to the classics of public policy studies. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Rachel Augustine Potter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226621883

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Bending the Rules by Rachel Augustine Potter Pdf

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreographed actions of Congress and the president account for only a small portion of the laws created in the United States. By some estimates, more than ninety percent of law is created by administrative rules issued by federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services, where unelected bureaucrats with particular policy goals and preferences respond to the incentives created by a complex, procedure-bound rulemaking process. With Bending the Rules, Rachel Augustine Potter shows that rulemaking is not the rote administrative activity it is commonly imagined to be but rather an intensely political activity in its own right. Because rulemaking occurs in a separation of powers system, bureaucrats are not free to implement their preferred policies unimpeded: the president, Congress, and the courts can all get involved in the process, often at the bidding of affected interest groups. However, rather than capitulating to demands, bureaucrats routinely employ “procedural politicking,” using their deep knowledge of the process to strategically insulate their proposals from political scrutiny and interference. Tracing the rulemaking process from when an agency first begins working on a rule to when it completes that regulatory action, Potter shows how bureaucrats use procedures to resist interference from Congress, the President, and the courts at each stage of the process. This exercise reveals that unelected bureaucrats wield considerable influence over the direction of public policy in the United States.

Author : Francis Edward Rourke
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016192034

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Bureaucracy, Politics, and Public Policy by Francis Edward Rourke Pdf

Author : Michael James Hill
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029132664

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The Policy Process in the Modern State by Michael James Hill Pdf

This thoroughly revised book includes more explanatory material on the policy process, and the purpose and problems of studying it.

Author : Joseph La Palombara
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400875191

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Bureaucracy and Political Development. (SPD-2), Volume 2 by Joseph La Palombara Pdf

What is the role of the public bureaucracy in social, economic, and political development? What are the alternatives of development for newly emerging nation-states? How does a bureaucracy satisfy or inhibit the requisites of democratic development? Twelve outstanding scholars—Joseph LaPalombara, Fritz Morstein Marx, S. N. Eisenstadt, Fred W. Riggs, Bert F. Hoselitz, Joseph J. Spengler, Merle Fainsod, Carl Beck, J. Donald Kingsley, John T. Dorsey, Ralph Braibanti, and Walter B. Sharp—approach these questions both by historical analysis (in the U.S. and in a score of countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa), and by empirical field research (in such varied places as Nigeria, Pakistan, and Viet Nam). Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Thomas A. Birkland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315292311

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An Introduction to the Policy Process by Thomas A. Birkland Pdf

A concise, accessible introduction to the public policy process that can be read on may levels. The author's direct writing style and extensive use of examples will appeal to students as well as practitioners. The book offers an extensive overview of the best current thinking on the policy process, with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather than novelty or abstraction. An extensive glossary of terms, keyed to the chapters in which each term is most thoroughly discussed; an annotated bibliography; and an introduction to web-based research, with a guide to the most important and reliable public policy research sites, are among the book's many useful features.