Valuing Bureaucracy

Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316820297
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valuing Bureaucracy written by Paul R. Verkuil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be effective, government must be run by professional managers. When decisions that should be taken by government officials are delegated to private contractors without adequate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Verkuil uses his inside perspectives on government performance and accountability to examine the tendencies at both the federal and state levels to 'deprofessionalize' government. Viewing the turn to contractors and private sector solutions in ideological and functional terms, he acknowledges that the problem cannot be solved without meaningful civil service reforms that make it easier to hire, incent and, where necessary, fire career employees and officials. The indispensable goal is to revitalize bureaucracy so it can continue to competently deliver essential services. By highlighting the leadership that already exists in the career ranks, Verkuil senses a willingness, or even eagerness, to make government, like America, great again.

Author : Paul Du Gay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199275459
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Values of Bureaucracy written by Paul Du Gay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures. It aims to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have a vital role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul du Gay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155698X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Values of Bureaucracy written by Paul du Gay and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence. The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.

Author : Paul R. Verkuil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0511346360
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing Sovereignty written by Paul R. Verkuil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliance on the private military industry and the privatization of public functions has left our government less able to govern effectively. When decisions that should have been taken by government officials are delegated (wholly or in part) to private contractors without appropriate oversight, the public interest is jeopardized. Books on private military have described the problem well, but they have not offered prescriptions or solutions this book does.

Author : James A. Medeiros
Publisher : North Scituate, Mass. : Duxbury Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Bureaucracy written by James A. Medeiros and published by North Scituate, Mass. : Duxbury Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John DiIulio
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599474689
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Back the Bureaucrats written by John DiIulio and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, John J. DiIulio Jr., one of America’s most respected political scientists and an adviser to presidents in both parties, summons the facts and statistics to show us how America’s big government works and why reforms that include adding a million more people to the federal workforce by 2035 might help to slow government’s growth while improving its performance. Starting from the underreported reality that the size of the federal workforce hasn’t increased since the early 1960s, even though the federal budget has skyrocketed. The number of federal programs has ballooned; Bring Back the Bureaucrats tells us what our elected leaders won’t: there are not enough federal workers to work for our democracy effectively. DiIulio reveals that the government in America is Leviathan by Proxy, a grotesque form of debt-financed big government that guarantees terrible government. Washington relies on state and local governments, for-profit firms, and nonprofit organizations to implement federal policies and programs. Big-city mayors, defense industry contractors, nonprofit executives, and other national proxies lobby incessantly for more federal spending. This proxy system chokes on chores such as cleaning up toxic waste sites, caring for hospitalized veterans, collecting taxes, handling plutonium, and policing more than $100 billion annually in “improper payments.” The lack of competent, well-trained federal civil servants resulted in the failed federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the troubled launch of Obamacare’s “health exchanges.” Bring Back the Bureaucrats is further distinguished by the presence of E. J. Dionne Jr. and Charles Murray, two of the most astute voices from the political left and right, respectively, who offer their candid responses to DiIulio at the end of the book.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Dead Authors Society
ISBN 13 : 9781773230467
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucracy written by Ludwig Von Mises and published by Dead Authors Society. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Ludwig von Mises was concerned with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. While he does not deny the necessity of certain bureaucratic structures for the smooth operation of any civilized state, he disagrees with the extent to which it has come to dominate the public life of European countries and the United States. The author's purpose is to demonstrate that the negative aspects of bureaucracy are not so much a result of bad policies or corruption as the public tends to think but are the bureaucratic structures due to the very tasks these structures have to deal with. The main body of the book is therefore devoted to a comparison between private enterprise on the one hand and bureaucratic agencies/public enterprise on the other.

Author : John Rohr
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824780326
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics for Bureaucrats written by John Rohr and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1988-12-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations. It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion, affirmative action, bureaucratic bashing, civil disobedience, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing. The Midwest Review of Pubic Administration lauds it as "...a unique teaching tool."

Author : Alexander Styhre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134156421
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Innovative Bureaucracy written by Alexander Styhre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and based on unique empirical research in the areas of organization theory and organizational behaviour, focusing on two major companies, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation.

Author : Samuel Workman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107061105
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government written by Samuel Workman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the influence of bureaucracy in American politics, asking how government agencies and Congress come to know about, and understand, important policy problems confronting citizens and government officials.