Author: John Rohr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351449532
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations. It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion, affirmative action, bureaucratic bashing, civil disobedience, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing. The Midwest Review of Pubic Administration lauds it as "...a unique teaching tool."
The Bureaucrat of Last Resort
Author: Eric Rosenblatt
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595485626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Richard Gillies is a brilliant technocrat in a Lower East Side Welfare office, manipulating a broken bureaucracy and crude computer system to keep at least a few sad and hurting claimants going. But Richard is coming to the breaking point himself, helplessly pining for warm, zaftig co-worker Marilyn. One night, to his shame, Richard approaches an oddly alluring and shy street-prostitute, only to recognize a lovely but deeply disturbed woman he had been unable to help at the office. The woman is more upset at the encounter than Richard, and experiences a seizure. In his efforts to find help, he confronts the charismatic "General," who commands a homeless community in an abandoned subway station. But the General turns the tables on Richard. He had been to Richard's office and seen his command of that terrain. He insists Richard must now decide what he thinks is more important, Christina's life or a bunch of empty bureaucratic rules he is surely clever enough to break. Pity defeats fear and Richard tricks the system into helping Christina. It's the first thing that has felt good in a long while. Even Marilyn notices the difference in him. Now, can he stop playing Robin Hood?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595485626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Richard Gillies is a brilliant technocrat in a Lower East Side Welfare office, manipulating a broken bureaucracy and crude computer system to keep at least a few sad and hurting claimants going. But Richard is coming to the breaking point himself, helplessly pining for warm, zaftig co-worker Marilyn. One night, to his shame, Richard approaches an oddly alluring and shy street-prostitute, only to recognize a lovely but deeply disturbed woman he had been unable to help at the office. The woman is more upset at the encounter than Richard, and experiences a seizure. In his efforts to find help, he confronts the charismatic "General," who commands a homeless community in an abandoned subway station. But the General turns the tables on Richard. He had been to Richard's office and seen his command of that terrain. He insists Richard must now decide what he thinks is more important, Christina's life or a bunch of empty bureaucratic rules he is surely clever enough to break. Pity defeats fear and Richard tricks the system into helping Christina. It's the first thing that has felt good in a long while. Even Marilyn notices the difference in him. Now, can he stop playing Robin Hood?
The New Welfare Bureaucrats
Author: Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226874931
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at bureaucracy’s human face, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a compelling study of welfare officers and how they navigate the increasingly tangled political and emotional terrain of their jobs. Celeste Watkins-Hayes here reveals how welfare reform engendered a shift in focus for caseworkers from simply providing monetary aid to the much more complex process of helping recipients find work. Now both more intimately involved in their clients’ lives and wielding greater power over their well-being, welfare officers’ racial, class, and professional identities have become increasingly important factors in their work. Based on the author’s extensive fieldwork in two very different communities in the northeast, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a boon to anyone looking to understand the impact of the institutional and policy changes wrought by welfare reform as well as the subtle social dynamics that shape the way welfare is meted out at the individual level.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226874931
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
As the recession worsens, more and more Americans must turn to welfare to make ends meet. Once inside the agency, the newly jobless will face a bureaucracy that has undergone massive change since the advent of welfare reform in 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at bureaucracy’s human face, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a compelling study of welfare officers and how they navigate the increasingly tangled political and emotional terrain of their jobs. Celeste Watkins-Hayes here reveals how welfare reform engendered a shift in focus for caseworkers from simply providing monetary aid to the much more complex process of helping recipients find work. Now both more intimately involved in their clients’ lives and wielding greater power over their well-being, welfare officers’ racial, class, and professional identities have become increasingly important factors in their work. Based on the author’s extensive fieldwork in two very different communities in the northeast, The New Welfare Bureaucrats is a boon to anyone looking to understand the impact of the institutional and policy changes wrought by welfare reform as well as the subtle social dynamics that shape the way welfare is meted out at the individual level.
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Author: Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800730802
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of his work. Mommsen’s classic book, first published in 1974 under the title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely explains the basic concepts underlying Weber’s worldview, but also explores the historical, social, and intellectual contexts in which he operated, including Weber’s development as an academic, his relationship to German nationalism, and his engagement with Marxism. Supplemented with a new foreword, a bibliography that includes recent studies, and a postscript by Volker Berghahn that surveys the most important debates on Weber's work since his death, this short volume serves as an excellent resource for scholars and students alike.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800730802
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of his work. Mommsen’s classic book, first published in 1974 under the title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely explains the basic concepts underlying Weber’s worldview, but also explores the historical, social, and intellectual contexts in which he operated, including Weber’s development as an academic, his relationship to German nationalism, and his engagement with Marxism. Supplemented with a new foreword, a bibliography that includes recent studies, and a postscript by Volker Berghahn that surveys the most important debates on Weber's work since his death, this short volume serves as an excellent resource for scholars and students alike.
Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies
Author: Lawrence M. Miller
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0449905268
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as his target is ripped asunder, sending Aristocrats, Bureaucrats and their unfortunate shipmates to their corporate death....So goes Mr. Miller's tale, from which we can all profit." The Wall Street Journal Barbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive. Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth. Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their own companies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 0449905268
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as his target is ripped asunder, sending Aristocrats, Bureaucrats and their unfortunate shipmates to their corporate death....So goes Mr. Miller's tale, from which we can all profit." The Wall Street Journal Barbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive. Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth. Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their own companies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.
Breakout
Author: Newt Gingrich
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 1621572811
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
It is not between the Left and the Right, but between the past and the future. America is on the edge of a breakout. In fact, we are poised for one of the most spectacular leaps in human well-being in history. Pioneers of the future—innovators and entrepreneurs—are achieving breakthroughs in medicine, transportation, energy, education, and other fields that will make the world a dramatically different and better place. Unless the “prison guards” of the past stop them. Every American must choose a side. Will you be a champion of the future or a prisoner of the past? Every potential breakthrough has to get past a host of individuals and institutions whose power and comfort depend on the status quo. These prison guards of the past will strangle every innovation that threatens to change the way things have always been done—if we let them.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 1621572811
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
It is not between the Left and the Right, but between the past and the future. America is on the edge of a breakout. In fact, we are poised for one of the most spectacular leaps in human well-being in history. Pioneers of the future—innovators and entrepreneurs—are achieving breakthroughs in medicine, transportation, energy, education, and other fields that will make the world a dramatically different and better place. Unless the “prison guards” of the past stop them. Every American must choose a side. Will you be a champion of the future or a prisoner of the past? Every potential breakthrough has to get past a host of individuals and institutions whose power and comfort depend on the status quo. These prison guards of the past will strangle every innovation that threatens to change the way things have always been done—if we let them.
Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000
Author: Ephraim Dowek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135279373
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author's time in Egypt as a high-level Israeli diplomat (he was eventually appointed Ambassador) and as a senior participant in a vital and important aspect of Arab-Israeli relations in the modern era, providing a personal insight into the period when Egypt and Israel entered into an era of peace.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135279373
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author's time in Egypt as a high-level Israeli diplomat (he was eventually appointed Ambassador) and as a senior participant in a vital and important aspect of Arab-Israeli relations in the modern era, providing a personal insight into the period when Egypt and Israel entered into an era of peace.
Handbook of Bureaucracy
Author: Ali Farazmand
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351564668
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
This encyclopedic reference/text provides an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, public policy, and public administration in historical and contemporary perspectives. Examining theoretical, philosophical, and empirical interpretations, as well as the intricate position of b
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351564668
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
This encyclopedic reference/text provides an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, public policy, and public administration in historical and contemporary perspectives. Examining theoretical, philosophical, and empirical interpretations, as well as the intricate position of b
Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality
Author: Haile K. Asmerom
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248088
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian regimes. It explores the impact of democratization on bureaucratic neutrality as well as the implications of neutral bureaucracies for democracy. Theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the subject are spelled out, and specialists discuss case studies from Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, therefore compounding a broad panel of the challenges and opportunities confronting the democratization process throughout the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248088
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian regimes. It explores the impact of democratization on bureaucratic neutrality as well as the implications of neutral bureaucracies for democracy. Theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the subject are spelled out, and specialists discuss case studies from Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, therefore compounding a broad panel of the challenges and opportunities confronting the democratization process throughout the world.
Bureaucracy and Development in the Arab World
Author: Jabbra
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004473963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004473963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Lobbyists and Bureaucrats in Brussels
Author: Sylvain Laurens
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351972502
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
With over 30,000 lobbyists in town, Brussels is often called the European capital of lobbying. Despite this, little is known on how this political system works in practice. This book offers an unprecedented window into the everyday relationships between bureaucrats and interest representatives. Where the media only shows lobbyists as they meet MEPs and submit amendments, the book argues that the bulk of their work is done in close contact with EU bureaucrats – a form of ‘quiet politics’ developed by the business community, targeting officials with little public exposure. Based on official archives, the book first sets the historical picture for the emergence of a new layer of bureaucrats; fuelled by European and transatlantic capitalism, it altered the political façade of the business community to fulfil its need for legitimacy. Drawing from observations of internal meetings of the main lobbies operating in Brussels and interviews with lobbyists and Commission officials, the book then shows lobbyists at work. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of the European Union, interest groups, and more broadly to political science and sociology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351972502
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
With over 30,000 lobbyists in town, Brussels is often called the European capital of lobbying. Despite this, little is known on how this political system works in practice. This book offers an unprecedented window into the everyday relationships between bureaucrats and interest representatives. Where the media only shows lobbyists as they meet MEPs and submit amendments, the book argues that the bulk of their work is done in close contact with EU bureaucrats – a form of ‘quiet politics’ developed by the business community, targeting officials with little public exposure. Based on official archives, the book first sets the historical picture for the emergence of a new layer of bureaucrats; fuelled by European and transatlantic capitalism, it altered the political façade of the business community to fulfil its need for legitimacy. Drawing from observations of internal meetings of the main lobbies operating in Brussels and interviews with lobbyists and Commission officials, the book then shows lobbyists at work. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of the European Union, interest groups, and more broadly to political science and sociology.