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Bureaucracy and democracy : accountability and performance /

Gormley, William T., Jr., 1950-

Bureaucracy and democracy : accountability and performance / William T. Gormley, Steven J. Balla. - Third edition . - xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bureaucracies as policymaking organizations -- Bureaucratic reasoning -- The bureaucracy's bosses -- The bureaucracy's clients -- Bureaucratic networks -- The politics of disaster management -- Why are some bureaucracies better than others?

Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policy implementation, Gormley and Balla assess their performance using four key perspectives--bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory--to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability.

9781608717170 1608717178


Bureaucracy--United States.

352.6/30973 / G671