The Dynamics of Bureaucracy
Author : Peter M. Blau
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Peter M. Blau
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Samuel Workman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,49 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 : Peter Michael Blau
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Peter Michael Blau (Sociologue.)
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : B. Dan Wood
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1994-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
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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 : Michael Reginald Pusey
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Bureaucracy
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Author : Michael Pusey
Publisher : Sydney ; New York : Wiley
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
An organisation analysis of the Tasmanian Education Department.
Author : Eleanor L. Schiff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 23,13 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 : S. G. Shapovalenko
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : Verso
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : 9780860913214
Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new test the classical theories concerning the relationship between bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to this renewal of theory, exploring the social and historical roots of bureaucracy, both within the capitalist state and in workers' mass organizations. Ernest Mandel draws on archival and contemporary accounts in an analysis of both capitalist administration and the ideology and practice of bureaucratic dictatorship in the communist bloc. He measures the actual performance of western and eastern societies against the forecasts of Lenin and Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises and Roberto Michels, or the more recent reflections of Amitai Etzioni and Alvin Gouldner. This lucid study challenges those theories--Stalinist, Weberian or social-democratic--which claim that an autonomous officialdom is a necessary feature of modern societies. It also furnishes a perceptive account of the specific dynamics of communist and post-communist society.