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Politics of Bureaucracyby B. Guy Peters
Routledge 2001; US$ 55.95New to the 5th edition include a new chapter on administrative reform, more material on developing countries and discussion of international bureaucracies, as well as taking into account a wealth of new literature. more...
The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutralityby Gregory A. Huber
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 84.00This book identifies the political origins of bureaucratic neutrality. more...
Policy Bureaucracyby Edward C Page; Bill Jenkins
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 149.00Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. In this ground-breaking work, two leading authorities come together to examine the world of the policy bureaucrat for the first time. The volume draws in crucial debates over accountability and democratic ideology, hierarchy and expertise, and should establish itself as a central point of reference for scholars and practitioners alike. - ;Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. Long before laws are drafted, policy commitments made, or groups consulted on government proposals, officials will have been working away to shape the policy into a form in which it can be presented to ministers... more...
Public Sector Records Managementby Kelvin Smith
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95Records management has undergone significant change in recent years, due to the introduction of freedom of information legislation as well as the development of e-government and e-business and the need to manage records effectively in both the private and public sector. There are very few purely practical texts for records managers and this book aims to fill that gap. more...
Building Strong Nationsby Eran Vigoda-Gadot
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Building Strong Nations enriches the discussion about moving modern nations forward despite major problems such as the clash of ideologies, the overburdening of and expectations from public administration, and the growing instability in world economics and international relations. It suggests potential directions for improving governability and public management against a backdrop of the tension between bureaucracy and democracy. more...
Transitions from Authoritarianismby RANDALL BAKER
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 155.00Baker and his colleagues provide a blend of the theoretical and the empirical evidence in an examination of the nature of bureaucracy under non-democratic, authoritarian forms of government, whether on the right, as in Portugal, or the left, as in Bulgaria. In all these instances, the bureaucracy was constructed to serve the distorted interests of centralized, unaccountable power. Following the remarkable spread of democracy in the seventies in Iberia, the eighties in much of Latin America, parts of Asia and Africa, and the nineties in the former USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries, the main focus was on reforming the economy and the political institutions.||Distinguished scholars concentrate on the inherited bureaucracy--the arm of government... more...
Comparing Public Bureaucraciesby B. Guy Peters
The University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 16.80The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual fashion? Comparing Public Bureaucracies seeks to understand why. One of the principal answers is that there is no readily accepted and dependent variable that would allow comparative public administration to conform to the usual canons of social research. In contrast, comparative public policy has a ready-made dependent variable in public expenditure. Peters discusses four possible dependent variables for comparative public administration. The first is personnel —the number and... more...
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