Bureaucratic Landscapes

Author : Craig W. Thomas
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262264935

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Bureaucratic Landscapes by Craig W. Thomas Pdf

Political scientists have long been concerned about the tension between institutional fragmentation and policy coordination in the U.S. bureaucracy. The literature is rife with examples of agencies competing with each other or asserting their independence, while cooperation is relatively rare. This is of particular importance in policy areas such as biodiversity, where species, habitats, and ecosystems cross various agency jurisdictions. Bureaucratic Landscapes explores the reasons for the success and failure of interagency cooperation, focusing on several case studies of efforts to preserve biodiversity in California. The book examines why public officials tried to cooperate and the obstacles they faced, providing indirect evidence of policy impacts as well. Among other topics, it examines the role of courts in prompting agency action, the role of scientific knowledge in organizational learning, and the emergence of new institutions to resolve collective-action problems. Notable findings include the crucial role of environmental lawsuits in prompting agency action and the surprisingly active role of the Bureau of Land Management in resource preservation.

Author : Craig Warren Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3406511

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Bureaucratic Landscapes by Craig Warren Thomas Pdf

Author : Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr.
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506348896

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Bureaucracy and Democracy by Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr. Pdf

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 : David Jenkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000636260

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Nature and Bureaucracy by David Jenkins Pdf

This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality. One prominent challenge facing scientists, policymakers, environmental activists, and environmentally concerned citizens, is to recognize that human influence in the natural world is pervasive and has a long history. How we act, or choose not to act, today will continue to determine the future of the natural world. Western-style management of nature, mediated by economic rationality and state bureaucracies, may not be the best strategy to maintain environmental integrity. The question is, what kinds of human influence, conceived of in the widest possible sense, will produce ideal environments for future generations? The related question is, who gets to choose? The author approaches the problem of analyzing the mutual influence of human and natural systems from two perspectives: as an objective scholar investigating bureaucracies and natural systems from the outside, and over the last decade as an inside practitioner working in various roles in federal land management agencies developing policies and regulations involved in the control of natural systems. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, policy and politics, and professionals working in environmental management roles as well as policymakers involved in public policy and administration.

Author : Ashish Avikunthak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009082006

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Bureaucratic Archaeology by Ashish Avikunthak Pdf

Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentrating on the workings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of the ASI to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge, wielded in the making of political and religious identity and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest courts of India. This book is a rare ethnography of the daily practice of a postcolonial bureaucracy from within rather than from the outside. It meticulously uncovers the social, cultural, political and epistemological ecology of ASI archaeologists to show how postcolonial state assembles and produces knowledge. This is the first book length monograph on the workings of archaeology in a non-western world, which meticulously shows how theory of archaeological practice deviates, transforms and generates knowledge outside the Euro-American epistemological tradition.

Author : Lars Elenius,Christina Allard,Camilla Sandström
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317059684

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Indigenous Rights in Modern Landscapes by Lars Elenius,Christina Allard,Camilla Sandström Pdf

This book examines the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes from a multidisciplinary perspective. Divided into two parts, the first deals explicitly with Sámi customary rights in relation to nature conservation in the Nordic countries and Russia from a legal and historical perspective. The authors investigate how longstanding Sámi customary territorial rights have been reassessed in the context of new kinds of legislation regarding Indigenous people. They also look at the ideas behind the historical models of nature conservation. The second part deals with the ideas and implementation of new kinds of postcolonial models of nature conservation. The case of the Sámi is compared with other Indigenous people internationally with cases from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and India. The work investigates how the governance of protected areas has been influenced by the principles of equality and positive discrimination, and how it has affected the possibilities of establishing adaptive co-management arrangements for specific areas. How the legal situation of Indigenous peoples has been recognised in an international context is also investigated. The volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of how the customary livelihood of Indigenous people has adapted to modern industrialised landscapes and also how postcolonial approaches have contributed to global changes of Indigenous rights and nature conservation models.

Author : Douglas Yates
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674086112

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Bureaucratic Democracy by Douglas Yates Pdf

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 : Andrew S. Mathews
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300260373

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Trees Are Shape Shifters by Andrew S. Mathews Pdf

An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.

Author : Louisa Lombard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478779

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Hunting Game by Louisa Lombard Pdf

The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years.

Author : Mariusz Czepczyński
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 0754670228

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Cultural Landscapes of Post-socialist Cities by Mariusz Czepczyński Pdf

Since the velvet revolution of 1989, the totalitarian communist urbanscapes of central European cities have been 'cleansed' or 'recycled', bringing in new architectural, functional and social forms to transform how they look and how they are used. This book examines the culturally conditional variations between local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general processes and systems. It assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social, cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides important insights.

Author : Goktug Morcol
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781420016918

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Handbook of Decision Making by Goktug Morcol Pdf

Handbook of Decision Making includes the wisdom of the long theological and philosophical traditions of human society, as well as a systematic exploration of the implications of contemporary evolutionary theories. Common patterns in decision making styles are identified as well as the common variations that different contexts may generate. The text covers the multiplicity of mainstream decision making styles such as cost-benefit analysis, and linear programming. It also explains alternative and emerging methods such as geographic information systems, Q-methodology, and narrative policy analysis. Practical applications are discussed using decision making practices in budgeting, public administration and governance, drug trafficking, and information systems.

Author : Robert J. Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742547019

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Collaborative Land Use Management by Robert J. Mason Pdf

Collaborative Land-Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land-use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures, watershed conservancies, ecoregional plans, and smart-growth initiatives. Collaborative Land-Use Management appraises these trends from physical, social, economic, civic, and environmental justice perspectives.

Author : Robert Goldman,Stephen Papson
Publisher : Polity
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745652078

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Landscapes of Capital by Robert Goldman,Stephen Papson Pdf

"Goldman and Papson do for Marxist cultural studies what Einstein did for physics: they rethink the space/time of capital. In particular, they read our global capitalism visually and discursively by examining the way capital entices us into debt and domination via advertising. Although a traditional book, this is also a map into the interior space/time of global structures that appear to us as flickering images interrupting our televisual downtime. They demonstrate that there is no downtime, no uncolonized space."---Ben Agger, University of Texas at Arlington --

Author : Marina Zaloznaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107184312

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The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe by Marina Zaloznaya Pdf

A detailed analysis of the corruption economies of Ukrainian and Belarusian bureaucracies and their roots in post-transitional politics.

Author : Paul F. Steinberg,Stacy D. Vandeveer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262300360

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Comparative Environmental Politics by Paul F. Steinberg,Stacy D. Vandeveer Pdf

Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe? Answering this question requires systematic, cross-national comparisons of political institutions, regulatory styles, and state-society relations. The field of comparative environmental politics approaches this task by bringing the theoretical tools of comparative politics to bear on the substantive concerns of environmental policy. This book outlines a comparative environmental politics framework and applies it to concrete, real-world problems of politics and environmental management. After a comprehensive review of the literature exploring domestic environmental politics around the world, the book provides a sample of major currents within the field, showing how environmental politics intersects with such topics as the greening of the state, the rise of social movements and green parties, European Union expansion, corporate social responsibility, federalism, political instability, management of local commons, and policymaking under democratic and authoritarian regimes. It offers fresh insights into environmental problems ranging from climate change to water scarcity and the disappearance of tropical forests, and it examines actions by state and nonstate actors at levels from the local to the continental. The book will help scholars and policymakers make sense of how environmental issues and politics are connected around the globe, and is ideal for use in upper-level undergraduateand graduate courses.