Bureaucratic Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bureaucratic Democracy write by Douglas Yates. This book was released on 1982. Bureaucratic Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of "bureaucratic democracy," in which governmental decisions increasingly are made in bureaucratic settings, out of the public eye. He describes the rational, selfinterested bureaucrat as a "minimaxer," who inches forward inconspicuously, gradually accumulating larger budgets and greater power, in an atmosphere of segmented pluralism, of conflict and competition, of silent politics. To make the policy process more competitive, democratic, and open, Yates calls for strategic debate among policymakers and bureaucrats and insists that bureaucrats should give a public accounting of their significant decisions rather than bury them in incremental changes. He offers concrete proposals, applicable to federal, state, and local governments, for simplifying the now-chaotic bureaucratic policymaking system and at the same time bolstering representation and openness. This is a book for all political scientists, policymakers, government officials, and concerned citizens. It may well become a classic statement on the workings of public bureaucracy.
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies write by Joel D. ABERBACH. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth.
Bureaucracy in a Democratic State
Bureaucracy in a Democratic State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bureaucracy in a Democratic State write by Kenneth J. Meier. This book was released on 2006-09-21. Bureaucracy in a Democratic State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Restoring Responsibility
Restoring Responsibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restoring Responsibility write by Dennis Frank Thompson. This book was released on 2005. Restoring Responsibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies.
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Bureaucracy and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bureaucracy and Democracy write by Steven J. Balla. This book was released on 2017-07-26. Bureaucracy and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition of Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role of bureaucratic values. ? New to this Edition: Interviews with two new cabinet secretaries—Christine Todd Whitman and Tom Ridge—with insightful quotes from them throughout the book. Added material on the battle over regulations, a battle that will loom large during the Trump administration, including midnight regulations and the Congressional Review Act. New examples demonstrate the activity and influence of constituencies of different kinds including the placing of women and minorities on US currency, a vignette that features the musical Hamilton, and the political protests surrounding the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. A new discussion of the privatization of roads, the pros and cons.
