The Values Of Bureaucracy

by du Gay, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780199275465
• ISBN10: 0199275467
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic and cultural existence. This book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programs of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.

Author Biography

Paul du Gay is Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies, and Co-Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His research is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His recent publications include, In Praise of Bureaucracy (Sage, 2000) and Cultural Economy (ed. with M. Pryke, 2002). Culture, Person and Organization: Essays in Cultural Economy will be published by Sage in 2005.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
Notes on Contributors	xi
The Values of Bureaucracy: An Introduction	1	(16)
Paul du Gay
Part 1: The Politics of Bureaucracy
The Bureau as Unit of Governance	17	(24)
Charles T. Goodsell
Bureaucracy and Liberty: State, Authority, and Freedom	41	(22)
Paul du Gay
Bureaucracy and the Controversy between Liberal Interventionism and Non-Interventionism	63	(26)
Thomas Armbruster
Part 2: The End of Bureaucracy?
Bureaucracy at Work: Misunderstandings and Mixed Blessings	89	(26)
Paul Thompson
Mats Alvesson
Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society	115	(26)
Michael Reed
Bureaucracy and Beyond: Managers and Leaders in the `Post-Bureaucratic' Organization	141	(24)
Graeme Salaman
Part 3: Bureaucracy and Public Management
A Service to the Public: The Containment of Ethical and Moral Conflicts by Public Bureaucracies	165	(26)
Paul Hoggett
Bending Bureaucracy: Leadership and Multi-Level Governance	191	(20)
Janet Newman
Performing for the Public: Doubt, Desire, and the Evaluation of Public Services	211	(22)
John Clarke
What is Best `Value'? Bureaucracy, Virtualism, and Local Governance	233	(24)
Daniel Miller
Part 4: Bureaucracy and Civil Society
Gender Equity---A Bureaucratic Enterprise?	257	(24)
Yvonne Due Billing
Bureaucracy, Open Access, and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose	281	(28)
Antonino Palumbo
Alan Scott
The Popularity of Bureaucracy: Involvement in Voluntary Associations	309	(26)
Mike Savage
Index	335