Author: Samuel Workman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government
Author: Samuel Workman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy
Author: Peter Michael Blau (Sociologue.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bureaucratic Dynamics
Author: B. Dan Wood
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions
Author: Eleanor L. Schiff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498597785
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy, the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agency’s internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization. Through a revised principal-agent framework, the author explores an agent-principal model to use the agent as the starting-point of analysis. The author tests the agent-principal model across 14 years and 132 bureaus and finds that both the president and the House of Representatives exert influence over the bureaucracy, but agency characteristics such as the degree of politization among the workforce, the type of work the agency is engaged in, and the hierarchical nature of the agency affects how agencies are controlled by their political masters. In a detailed case study of one agency, the U.S. Department of Education, the author finds that education policy over a 65-year period is elite-led, and that that hierarchical nature of the department conditions political principals’ influence. This book works to overcome three hurdles that have plagued bureaucratic studies: the difficulty of uniform sampling across the bureaucracy, the overuse of case studies, and the overreliance on the principal-agent theoretical approach.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498597785
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy, the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agency’s internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization. Through a revised principal-agent framework, the author explores an agent-principal model to use the agent as the starting-point of analysis. The author tests the agent-principal model across 14 years and 132 bureaus and finds that both the president and the House of Representatives exert influence over the bureaucracy, but agency characteristics such as the degree of politization among the workforce, the type of work the agency is engaged in, and the hierarchical nature of the agency affects how agencies are controlled by their political masters. In a detailed case study of one agency, the U.S. Department of Education, the author finds that education policy over a 65-year period is elite-led, and that that hierarchical nature of the department conditions political principals’ influence. This book works to overcome three hurdles that have plagued bureaucratic studies: the difficulty of uniform sampling across the bureaucracy, the overuse of case studies, and the overreliance on the principal-agent theoretical approach.
States at Work
Author: Thomas Bierschenk
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004264965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004264965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.
Power and Money
Author: Ernest Mandel
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860913214
Category : Bureaucracy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new test the classical theories concerning the relationship between bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to this renewal of theory, exploring the social and historical roots of bureaucracy, both within the capitalist state and in workers' mass organizations. Ernest Mandel draws on archival and contemporary accounts in an analysis of both capitalist administration and the ideology and practice of bureaucratic dictatorship in the communist bloc. He measures the actual performance of western and eastern societies against the forecasts of Lenin and Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises and Roberto Michels, or the more recent reflections of Amitai Etzioni and Alvin Gouldner. This lucid study challenges those theories--Stalinist, Weberian or social-democratic--which claim that an autonomous officialdom is a necessary feature of modern societies. It also furnishes a perceptive account of the specific dynamics of communist and post-communist society.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860913214
Category : Bureaucracy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new test the classical theories concerning the relationship between bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to this renewal of theory, exploring the social and historical roots of bureaucracy, both within the capitalist state and in workers' mass organizations. Ernest Mandel draws on archival and contemporary accounts in an analysis of both capitalist administration and the ideology and practice of bureaucratic dictatorship in the communist bloc. He measures the actual performance of western and eastern societies against the forecasts of Lenin and Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises and Roberto Michels, or the more recent reflections of Amitai Etzioni and Alvin Gouldner. This lucid study challenges those theories--Stalinist, Weberian or social-democratic--which claim that an autonomous officialdom is a necessary feature of modern societies. It also furnishes a perceptive account of the specific dynamics of communist and post-communist society.
Unpacking international organisations
Author: Jarle Trondal
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847793525
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book introduces international bureaucracy as a key field of study for public administration and also rediscovers it as an essential ingredient in the study of international organisations. To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies challenge and supplement the inherent Westphalian intergovernmental order based on territorial sovereignty? To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies supplement the existing international intergovernmental order with a multi-dimensional international order subjugated by a compound set of decision-making dynamics? International bureaucracies constitute a distinct and increasingly important feature of public administration studies. However, the role of international bureaucracies has been largely neglected in most social science sub-disciplines. This book takes a first step into a third generation of international organisation (IO) studies. It will be of immense value to academics in politics and international relations as well as practitioners in public administration in domestic governments and international organizations.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847793525
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book introduces international bureaucracy as a key field of study for public administration and also rediscovers it as an essential ingredient in the study of international organisations. To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies challenge and supplement the inherent Westphalian intergovernmental order based on territorial sovereignty? To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies supplement the existing international intergovernmental order with a multi-dimensional international order subjugated by a compound set of decision-making dynamics? International bureaucracies constitute a distinct and increasingly important feature of public administration studies. However, the role of international bureaucracies has been largely neglected in most social science sub-disciplines. This book takes a first step into a third generation of international organisation (IO) studies. It will be of immense value to academics in politics and international relations as well as practitioners in public administration in domestic governments and international organizations.
Inside Bureaucracy
Author: Anthony Downs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881337785
Category : Bureaucracy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book aims to develop a useful theory of bureaucratic decision making because bureaus make critical decisions that shape the economic, educational, political, social, moral, & even religious lives of nearly everyone on earth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881337785
Category : Bureaucracy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book aims to develop a useful theory of bureaucratic decision making because bureaus make critical decisions that shape the economic, educational, political, social, moral, & even religious lives of nearly everyone on earth.
Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment
Author: Richard W. Waterman
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
By examining what these personnel think about politics, the environment, their budgets, and the other institutions and agencies with which they interact, this work illuminates the actions of the bureaucracy and gives it a human face."--Jacket.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
By examining what these personnel think about politics, the environment, their budgets, and the other institutions and agencies with which they interact, this work illuminates the actions of the bureaucracy and gives it a human face."--Jacket.
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy
Author: Peter M. Blau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description