The State of Public Bureaucracy

by Hill,Larry B.

• ISBN13: 9781563240089
• ISBN10: 1563240084
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Public Bureaucracy and the American State	p. 1
The Current State of Public Bureaucracy
Taking Bureaucracy Seriously	p. 15
A Legitimate Role for Bureaucracy in Democratic Governance	p. 59
Comparative Perspectives on Bureaucracy in the Policy Process	p. 87
On the Uniqueness of Public Bureaucracies	p. 111
Bureaucracy, Power, Policy, and the State	p. 141
Explorations in Bureaucratic Responsiveness	p. 171
The Future State of Public Bureaucracy
The Problem of Predicting Bureaucracy's Future	p. 193
The Political Marriage of Information Technology and Bureaucracy	p. 203
On Predicting the Bureaucratization of American Government	p. 209
Catastrophic Errors and the Changing Shape of Bureaucracy	p. 217
American Exceptionalism: Government without Bureaucracy	p. 223
Index	p. 230
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