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.
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.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Bureaucracy written by Peter Michael Blau and published by Chicago, U. P. This book was released on 1955 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on thesis, Columbia University Bibliography: p.223-226.
Download or read book Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy written by Morton H. Halperin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy—civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers—and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions are actually made. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to influence another country may in fact represent a shaky compromise between rival elements within the U.S. government. The authors provide numerous examples of bureaucratic maneuvering and reveal how they have influenced our international relations. The revised edition includes new examples of bureaucratic politics from the past three decades, from Jimmy Carter's view of the State Department to conflicts between George W. Bush and the bureaucracy regarding Iraq. The second edition also includes a new analysis of Congress's role in the politics of foreign policymaking.
Download or read book Bureaucratic Dynamics written by B. Dan Wood and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994-08-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering readable case studies and well-paired figures and tables (presented in both technical and nontechnical fashion), Bureaucratic Dynamics uses principal-agent theory to explain how the public policy system works.
Download or read book Bureaucracy written by James Q. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1989-12-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert explains what government bureaucracies do and why they behave the way they do.
Download or read book Bureaucrats Politics and the Environment written by Richard W. Waterman and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining what these personnel think about politics, the environment, their budgets, and the other institutions and agencies with which they interact, this work illuminates the actions of the bureaucracy and gives it a human face."--Jacket.
Download or read book Bureaucratic Dynamics written by B. Dan Wood and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 develops a new theoretical perspective on bureaucratic influence and congressional agenda setting based on limited attention and government information processing. Using a comprehensive new data set on regulatory policymaking across the entire federal bureaucracy, Samuel Workman develops the theory of the dual dynamics of congressional agenda setting and bureaucratic problem solving as a way to understand how the US government generates information about, and addresses, important policy problems. Key to the perspective is a communications framework for understanding the nature of information and signaling between the bureaucracy and Congress concerning the nature of policy problems. Workman finds that congressional influence is innate to the process of issue shuffling, issue bundling, and the fostering of bureaucratic competition. In turn, bureaucracy influences the congressional agenda through problem monitoring, problem definition, and providing information that serves as important feedback in the development of an agenda.
Download or read book Dynamics of Public Bureaucracy written by Fred A. Kramer and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Winthrop Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration and the dynamics of public bureaucracy--Politics and administration--Organization theories of public bureaucracies--Encouraging individual growth and organization development--Public personnel administration--Public sector labor-management relations--Decision-making theory and policy analysis--The budgetary process: politics and policy--Administrative control through the executive--Enforcing administrative accountability from outside the executive--Administrative responsibility and administrators as change agents.
Download or read book The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality written by Gregory A. Huber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are political understandings of bureaucracy incompatible with Weberian features of administrative neutrality? In examining the question of whether interest groups and elected officials are able to influence how government agencies implement the law, this book identifies the political origins of bureaucratic neutrality. In bridging the traditional gap between questions of internal management (public administration) and external politics (political science), Huber argues that 'strategic neutrality' allows bureaucratic leaders to both manage their subordinates and sustain political support. By analyzing the OSH Act of 1970, Huber demonstrates the political origins and benefits of administrative neutrality, and contrasts it with apolitical and unconstrained administrative implementation. Historical analysis, interviews with field-level bureaucrats and their supervisors, and quantitative analysis provide a rich understanding of the twin difficulties agency leaders face as political actors and personnel managers.
Download or read book The Federal Role in the Federal System written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bureaucracy written by James Q. Wilson and published by Basic Books. 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.
Download or read book The Federal Role in the Federal System written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Role in the Federal System written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Role in the Federal System written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Role in the Federal System written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
