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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
Autor principal: Suleiman, Ezra N., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Privatization.
Organizational change.
Democracy.
Bureaucracy.
Administrative agencies > Reorganization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Bureaucratie.
Privatisation.
Administration publique > Reorganisation.
Changement organisationnel.
Privatization
Organizational Innovation
Electronic books.
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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