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This text offers a corrective to the view that bureaucracy is the source of democracy's ills. It argues that 'government reinvention' has limited bureaucracy's capacity to adequately serve the public good.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Suleiman, Ezra N., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Organizational change.
Administrative agencies > Reorganization.
Privatization.
Bureaucracy.
Democracy.
Organizational Innovation
Privatization
Changement organisationnel.
Administration publique > Réorganisation.
Privatisation.
Bureaucratie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Administrative agencies > Reorganization
Bureaucracy
Democracy
Organizational change
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. The End of Bureaucracy?
  • Bureaucracy and the Market
  • Deprofessionalization and Politicization
  • Chapter 2. Beyond Weber?
  • The Dominance of the State
  • Bureaucracy and the Market
  • Bureaucracy and Capitalism
  • Bureaucracy and Democracy
  • Bureaucracy and Political Development
  • Chapter 3. New Conceptions of Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Citizenship
  • An American Revolution
  • Beyond Cost-Cutting: NPM
  • Bureaucratic Reform and the Public Interest
  • From Citizen to Customer
  • A Nation of Free-Riders
  • Statist Minimalism and Politics
  • Chapter 4. Popular Dissatisfaction and Administrative Reform
  • Popular Support for Government Involvement
  • Popular Distrust of Government
  • Bureaucracies and Distrust
  • Chapter 5. Universalistic Reforms
  • An American Blueprint
  • Privatization
  • Decentralization
  • Reduction in State Employment
  • Chapter 6. Emulating the Private Sector
  • The Rhetoric and Reality of New Public Management
  • An Ideal Administration?
  • Government Strategies of Reform
  • The Politics of Reform
  • Kinds of Business-Emulating Reform
  • Chapter 7. The Reluctant Reformers: Japan and France
  • Japan
  • France
  • Chapter 8. Deprofessionalization: The Decline of the Civil Service Career
  • The Nature of Administrative Reform
  • Decline of a Career
  • Japan
  • United States
  • France
  • Distrust of Public Servants
  • Chapter 9. Deprofessionalization: The Process of Politicization
  • Reassertion of Politics
  • NPM and Politicization
  • Politicization: A Rationalist Perspective
  • United States
  • France
  • Chapter 10. The End of the Nonpolitical Bureaucracy
  • Responsiveness
  • Governance Today and Democracy Tomorrow
  • Ending a Monopoly
  • Japan
  • Britain
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • Chapter 11. Constructing a Bureaucratic Apparatus in East-Central Europe
  • Reform and Stability
  • Undoing the State: Privatization and Devolution
  • Building a Professional Bureaucracy
  • Reforming Ancien Regime Bureaucracies
  • The GDR and a Reunified Germany
  • Establishing a Civil Service
  • Conclusion: Bureaucracy in the Transition Phase
  • Chapter 12. The Politics of Bureaucratic Reform
  • Mass Democracy and Government Reform
  • Bureaucracy and Alienation
  • Reforming Society or Reforming Bureaucracy?
  • Reforms and the Public Interest
  • The Future of Bureaucracy.

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