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Bureaucracy and democracy : accountability and performance / William T. Gormley, Steven J. Balla.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, 2013Edition: Third editionDescription: xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781608717170
  • 1608717178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 352.6/30973 23 G671
Contents:
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?
Summary: 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.
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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.