State Class And Bureaucracy

Author : Leslie Alexander Pal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773506237
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State, Class, and Bureaucracy written by Leslie Alexander Pal and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent explanations of public policy have increasingly focused on "state-centred" theories which emphasize internal state dynamics, as opposed to "society-centred" theories which concentrate on external forces such as interest group pressure. State, Class, and Bureaucracy assesses the fruitfulness of these approaches by comparing neo-Marxist and neo-pluralist explanations (society-centred) with explanations that emphasize the effects of bureaucracy and federalism (state-centred). Unemployment insurance (UI) was chosen as a case study because of its importance to employer and employee groups; if any program or policy is susceptible to a society-centred explanation, UI should be.

Author : James Q. Wilson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541646258
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy written by James Q. Wilson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist) In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they operate the way they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. It is the essential guide to understanding how American government works.

Author : Glen Krutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781738998470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Government 3e written by Glen Krutz and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government. The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but to work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses, future careers, and as engaged citizens. In order to help students understand the ways that government, society, and individuals interconnect, the revision includes more examples and details regarding the lived experiences of diverse groups and communities within the United States. The authors and reviewers sought to strike a balance between confronting the negative and harmful elements of American government, history, and current events, while demonstrating progress in overcoming them. In doing so, the approach seeks to provide instructors with ample opportunities to open discussions, extend and update concepts, and drive deeper engagement.

Author : Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780155055230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Bureaucracy written by Kenneth J. Meier and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling textbook is unique because of its focus on the political side of bureaucracy. Designed to present bureaucracy as a political institution, this book provides coverage of the controls on bureaucracy and how bureaucracy makes policy.

Author : Tobin Im
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787149390
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Democracy and Bureaucracy in South Korea written by Tobin Im and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores ways in which bureaucracy may not only be compatible with democracy but, more ambitiously, the conditions under which it can enhance it, examining the systems and institutions of the Korean bureaucracy: the National Election Commission, the police force, local government, the ceiling recruitment strategy, and procurement policy.

Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools written by Michael B. Katz and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manuel Kellner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004533508
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy written by Manuel Kellner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Mandel (1923–1995) was one of the best-known Marxist scholars active in the second half of the twentieth century. A leading member of the Fourth International, his books on capitalist economics, bureaucracies in the workers’ movement and on power and socialist strategy were translated into many languages. Democratic self-organisation of workers was a red thread that ran through all of his thinking. In Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy, Manuel Kellner presents the first and until now only comprehensive overview of Mandel’s theoretical and political contributions, arguing that his work remains important for the debates on a socialist alternative in the twenty-first century.

Author : Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889456
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy in a Democratic State written by Kenneth J. Meier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental democratic principles—can actually promote democracy. Drawing from both the empirical work of political scientists and the qualitative work of public administration scholars, the authors employ a "governance approach" that considers broad, institutionally complex systems of governance as well as the nitty-gritty details of bureaucracy management. They examine the results of bureaucratic and political interactions in specific government settings, locally and nationally, to determine whether bureaucratic systems strengthen or weaken the connections between public preferences and actual policies. They find that bureaucracies are part of complex intergovernmental and interorganizational networks that limit a single bureaucracy's institutional control over the implementation of public policy. Further, they conclude that top-down political control of bureaucracy has only modest impact on the activities of bureaucracy in the U.S. and that shared values and commitments to democratic norms, along with political control, produce a bureaucracy that is responsive to the American people.

Author : Eleanor L. Schiff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498597785
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions written by Eleanor L. Schiff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy, the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agency’s internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization. Through a revised principal-agent framework, the author explores an agent-principal model to use the agent as the starting-point of analysis. The author tests the agent-principal model across 14 years and 132 bureaus and finds that both the president and the House of Representatives exert influence over the bureaucracy, but agency characteristics such as the degree of politization among the workforce, the type of work the agency is engaged in, and the hierarchical nature of the agency affects how agencies are controlled by their political masters. In a detailed case study of one agency, the U.S. Department of Education, the author finds that education policy over a 65-year period is elite-led, and that that hierarchical nature of the department conditions political principals’ influence. This book works to overcome three hurdles that have plagued bureaucratic studies: the difficulty of uniform sampling across the bureaucracy, the overuse of case studies, and the overreliance on the principal-agent theoretical approach.

Author : Victor Perez-Diaz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349159042
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Bureaucracy and Civil Society written by Victor Perez-Diaz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-08-31 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: