Bureaucracy and Self-Government : Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics /

"In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing c...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cook, Brian J., 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Édition:Second edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Verwaltung
Repräsentation > Politik
Bürokratie
Representative government and representation.
Public administration.
Politics and government
Bureaucracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
88.20 public organization, public management.
Gouvernement representatif > États-Unis > Histoire.
Administration publique (Science) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Bureaucratie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Representative government and representation > United States > History.
Public administration > United States > History.
Bureaucracy > United States > History.
United States.
USA
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States > Politics and government.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, Cook offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about "big government." Cook enriches his historical analysis with new scholarship and extends that analysis to the present, taking account of significant developments since the mid-1990s. Each chapter has been updated, and two new chapters sharpen Cook's argument for recognizing a constitutive dimension in normative theorizing about public administration. The second edition also includes reviews of Jeffersonian impacts on administrative theory and practice and Jacksonian developments in national administrative structures and functions, a look at the administrative theorizing that presaged progressive reforms in civil service, and insight into the confounding complexities that characterize public thinking about administration in a postmodern political order."--Publisher's website.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9781421415536

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