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.
Author : Samuel Workman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107061105
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.
Author : Fred A. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Winthrop Publishers
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN :
Author : Gerald E. Caiden
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : B. Dan Wood
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1994-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
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.
Author : Jarle Trondal
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847793525
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.
Author : Thomas Bierschenk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004264965
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.
Author : Morton H. Halperin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815734107
The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy—civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers—and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions are actually made. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to influence another country may in fact represent a shaky compromise between rival elements within the U.S. government. The authors provide numerous examples of bureaucratic maneuvering and reveal how they have influenced our international relations. The revised edition includes new examples of bureaucratic politics from the past three decades, from Jimmy Carter's view of the State Department to conflicts between George W. Bush and the bureaucracy regarding Iraq. The second edition also includes a new analysis of Congress's role in the politics of foreign policymaking.
Author : Eleanor L. Schiff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498597785
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.
Author : Richard W. Waterman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
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.
Author : Peter Michael Blau
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226057262