TY - BOOK AU - Gormley,William T. AU - Balla,Steven J. TI - Bureaucracy and democracy: accountability and performance SN - 9781608717170 U1 - 352.6/30973 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - CQ Press KW - Bureaucracy KW - United States N1 - 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? N2 - 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 ER -