Taming the Bureaucracy : Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies

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Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gormley, William T., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Executive departments.
Bureaucracy.
Administrative agencies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Bureaucratie > États-Unis.
Executive departments > United States.
Administrative agencies > United States.
Bureaucracy > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has emerged with a weaker, less autonomous bureaucracy. In a book that will interest not only public administration specialists but students of American government generally, William Gormley examines the consequences of the reform efforts of the 1970s and 1980s and seeks to understa.
Item Description:Cover; Contents.
Physical Description:1 online resource (285 pages).
ISBN:9781400860166

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