Politicians Bureaucrats And Administrative Reform

Author : B. Guy Peters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134566549
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform written by B. Guy Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adminstrative reform in most western democracies over the past couple of decades has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service delivery. This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. The contributors - experts on administrative reform - assess its scope and objectives, and also the ways in which these reforms have impacted on the traditional roles of elective office and civil servants. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and academics in Politics and Public Administration, as well as for civil servants and experts on administrative reform.

Author : Gerald E. Caiden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351533886
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Administrative Reform written by Gerald E. Caiden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from it? Does a theory of administrative reform exist?A survey of published research on administrative reform reveals that satisfactory answers to these questions are handicapped by methodological and theoretical shortcomings. There are no common definitions, no agreement over content, no selected boundaries, no clear links with the wide phenomenon of social reform, no firm hypothesis tested by empirical findings, and no continuous dialogue between practitioners and theorists. This book is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the subject for professionals and students in the fields of public and private administration. It carefully examines the diverse interdisciplinary literature on the subject and identifies and develops the most promising approaches towards a unified theory.Caiden shows how the study of administrative reform can contribute substantially to the development of administrative theory, and constructs a working definition of the phenomenon of administrative reform, distinguishing it from social change and from administrative change. The practical use of this definition is tested by the analysis of various case histories of administrative cultures of different periods in history, from which a common cycle of reform processes is discerned. The author follows with a detailed examination of the processes themselves. The book concludes with a discussion of the obstacles to reform and a review of the author's findings and conclusions.

Author : Jack H. Knott
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Bureaucracy written by Jack H. Knott and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Br> Reforming Bureaucracy : The Politics of Institutional Choice by Knott, Jack H.; Miller, Gary J. Terms of use Shows how modern public bureaucracies share a common set of institutional rules determining the internal patterns of decision-making and external relationships with other political factors. Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service.

Author : B. Guy Peters
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773536590
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Administration Change written by B. Guy Peters and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought provoking perspectives on attempts to change government.

Author : Martin Painter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289630
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Public Administration written by Martin Painter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration.

Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781959718
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy in the Modern State written by Jon Pierre and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration is under increasing pressure to become more efficient, better geared to the demands and opinions of citizens, more open to contacts with transnational bureaucracies, and more responsive to the ideas of elected policy makers

Author : Ali Farazmand
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824791827
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Bureaucracy written by Ali Farazmand and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-06-10 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic reference/text provides an analysis of the basic issues and major aspects of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, public policy, and public administration in historical and contemporary perspectives. Examining theoretical, philosophical, and empirical interpretations, as well as the intricate position of bureaucracy in government, politics, national development, international relations, and a host of other institutions, the book focuses on the multifunctional role of public bureaucracies in societies with various socioeconomic, political, cultural, and ideological orientations and covers a wide range of processes and subjects.

Author : Gerald E. Caiden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110870150
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Administrative Reform Comes of Age written by Gerald E. Caiden and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ali Farazmand
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420015222
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy and Administration written by Ali Farazmand and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bureaucracy is an age-old form of government that has survived since ancient times; it has provided order and persisted with durability, dependability, and stability. The popularity of the first edition of this book, entitled Handbook of Bureaucracy, is testimony to the endurance of bureaucratic institutions. Reflecting the accelerated globalizatio

Author : Brian J. Cook
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415534
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy and Self-Government written by Brian J. Cook and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough update to this well-regarded political history of American public administration. 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.