From Bureaucracy To Public Management

Author : Ali Farazmand
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1420015222

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Bureaucracy and Administration by Ali Farazmand Pdf

Bureaucracy is an age-old form of government that has survived since ancient times; it has provided order and persisted with durability, dependability, and stability. The popularity of the first edition of this book, entitled Handbook of Bureaucracy, is testimony to the endurance of bureaucratic institutions. Reflecting the accelerated globalization of corporate capitalism, cultures, and governance systems and the additional complexity in the tasks of public administrators, Bureaucracy and Administration presents a comprehensive, global perspective that highlights the dramatic changes of the last 15 years in governance, business, and public administration. Reflects Dramatic Changes in Governance, Business, and Public Administration Through articles contributed by international experts, this volume provides a thorough analysis of bureaucracies worldwide and their effect on politics, economics, and society. The book begins by exploring the historical antecedents of bureaucracy, looking at some of the great ancient civilizations and their administrative traditions, achievements, and contributions to modern administration and governance systems. In the next section, leading scholars from political science, sociology, governance, and public administration present a detailed review of theoretical and conceptual perspectives on bureaucracies and bureaucratic politics. Following an examination of bureaucracy and public management and presenting topics such as the response to Hurricane Katrina, training of bureaucrats, and ethical issues, contributors review bureaucratic politics in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The book concludes with a focused analysis of bureaucracy, change, reform, and revolution, highlighting implications for future governance and administration. Comprising theoretical and empirical analyses and including perspectives which span from ancient to modern times, this volume comprehensively and authoritatively advances the knowledge of the nature, role, and function of bureaucracy as the core of sound governance and administration around the world.

Author : Michael W. Bauer,Christoph Knill,Steffen Eckhard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349949779

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International Bureaucracy by Michael W. Bauer,Christoph Knill,Steffen Eckhard Pdf

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and differences between national and international administrations and carefully constructs the impact of international administrative tools on policy making. The book shows how the study of international bureaucracies can fertilize interdisciplinary discourse, in particular between International Relations, Comparative Government and Public Administration. The book makes a forceful argument for Public Administration to take on the challenge of internationalization.

Author : O.P. Dwivedi,James Iain Gow
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050704124

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From Bureaucracy to Public Management by O.P. Dwivedi,James Iain Gow Pdf

This book is about the systems of values, traditions, perceptions, and meanings existing in the Canadian federal public service since the First World War. Surveying that history, it considers the conflict of values arising from the attempt to add New Public Management values to older bureaucratic ones. These tensions are looked at from an ethical viewpoint, but also from that of the relationship between ends and means. Are the means proposed really likely to meet the ends proclaimed? Attempts to change a culture from the top down run against daily realities; the interests, training, and experience of all employees, elites, and others. Authors Dwivedi and Gow intend this overview to enable readers to appreciate the complex world of Canada's public servants. A joint publication with The Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781959714

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Bureaucracy in the Modern State by Jon Pierre Pdf

Public administration is under increasing pressure to become more efficient, better geared to the demands and opinions of citizens, more open to contacts with transnational bureaucracies, and more responsive to the ideas of elected policy makers

Author : Fred A. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Winthrop Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039242156

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Dynamics of Public Bureaucracy by Fred A. Kramer Pdf

Author : B. Guy Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : 0679303383

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The Politics of Bureaucracy by B. Guy Peters Pdf

Author : Peter Aucoin,Institute for Research on Public Policy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X006037028

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The New Public Management by Peter Aucoin,Institute for Research on Public Policy Pdf

In the face of the need to make choices between programs that governments consider essential to administer themselves and programs that may be discontinued or transferred to other organizations, a new vision of government functioning has emerged, notably with greater emphasis on performance and results. This book analyzes the impact of an increasingly influential paradigm called new public management on the public services of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Major challenges common to these countries include powerful bureaucracies, restrictive organizational designs, and rigid rules and procedures blocking change. The book reviews various reform initiatives launched in response to those challenges in the areas of career public service, statecraft, administrative fragmentation and centralization, consolidation and devolution of authority, moving beyond bureaucracy, enhancing performance, and securing accountability. The book concludes with an agenda for public management.

Author : Charles T. Goodsell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016192224

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The Case for Bureaucracy by Charles T. Goodsell Pdf

"The Case for Bureaucracy" vigorously makes the argument that the public servants and administrative institutions of government in America are among the best in the world. Contrary to popular myth, they are not sources of great waste or threat to liberty, but social assets of critical value to a functioning democracy. In presenting his case, Goodsell covers many aspects of public administration and draws on current events to bring the material alive and up-to-date. This new edition incorporates September 11th and its consequences for public administration. Also a complete assessment is made of the Reinventing Government movement and related reforms.

Author : Michael Barzelay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520912497

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Breaking Through Bureaucracy by Michael Barzelay Pdf

This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm—a theory built on such notions as central control, economy and efficiency, and rigid adherence to rules. Rarely questioned, the bureaucratic paradigm leads competent and faithful public servants—as well as politicians—unwittingly to impair government's ability to serve citizens by weakening, misplacing, and misdirecting accountability. How can this system be changed? Drawing on research sponsored by the Ford Foundation/Harvard University program on Innovations in State and Local Government, this book tells the story of how public officials in one state, Minnesota, cast off the conceptual blinders of the bureaucratic paradigm and experimented with ideas such as customer service, empowering front-line employees to resolve problems, and selectively introducing market forces within government. The author highlights the arguments government executives made for the changes they proposed, traces the way these changes were implemented, and summarizes the impressive results. This approach provides would-be bureaucracy busters with a powerful method for dramatically improving the way government manages the public's business. Generalizing from the Minnesota experience and from similar efforts nationwide, the book proposes a new paradigm that will reframe the perennial debate on public management. With its carefully analyzed ideas, real-life examples, and closely reasoned practical advice, Breaking Through Bureaucracy is indispensable to public managers and students of public policy and administration.

Author : Ewan Ferlie,Laurence E. Lynn,Christopher Pollitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199226443

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The Oxford Handbook of Public Management by Ewan Ferlie,Laurence E. Lynn,Christopher Pollitt Pdf

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

Author : Michael Barzelay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520925274

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The New Public Management by Michael Barzelay Pdf

How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. These countries are exemplars of the New Public Management, a term used to describe distinctive new themes, styles, and patterns of public service management. Calling for public management to become a vibrant field of public policy, this valuable book consolidates recent work on the New Public Management and provides a basis for improving research and policy debate on managing public bureaucracies. A copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation

Author : Martin Painter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230289635

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Tradition and Public Administration by Martin Painter Pdf

Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration.

Author : Kathleen McLaughlin,Ewan Ferlie,Stephen Osborne P
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134544158

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New Public Management by Kathleen McLaughlin,Ewan Ferlie,Stephen Osborne P Pdf

In this original, comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of New Public Management in the UK, leading international authorities present evaluations of current thinking and highlight the challenges for the future.

Author : Richard C. Box
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9780765628602

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Public Administration and Society by Richard C. Box Pdf

Author : Rumki Basu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429640612

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Public Administration in the 21st Century by Rumki Basu Pdf

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century. This book examines the transformations happening in global societies, the economy and in politics, to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic discipline as well as being a focus of social science research. It presents a reassessment of governance in heterogenous developing countries that goes beyond the traditional Weberian bureaucratic model, toward new models of organization and management, informed by their legal, constitutional, economic and political needs, aspirations and ground realities. This is especially important in relation to the marginalized sections of society that primarily rely on citizen entitlements through public service delivery systems. The author looks at widening the range and scope of public administrative agencies with the gradual cooperation of multiple actors, such as the civil society, people at large and even the private sector, in a partnering role. The author revisits the discipline to tackle intellectual dilemmas that current governance theories and practices are confronting, or will have to confront in future administrative situations. There will be key discussions on mandates and challenges for the state regarding the rising South; this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics, especially governance and public policy, sociology and development studies. It will also be of interest to bureaucrats, NGOs and government officials.