Download or read book Bureaucracy and the Policy Process written by Dennis D. Riley and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central role that bureaucracy plays in the policy process is played by individuals, namely, by subject matter experts and managers we call political executives. These executives do not play their role in a vacuum, of course, but in a context defined by three key forces--the organizational environment of bureaucracy itself; our governing philosophy stressing responsiveness, respect for individual rights, and accountability; and the demands of the people and the institutions those people have created to govern themselves. This book explores how these three forces collide and how the resulting collision shapes the way in which bureaucracy makes policy, as well as the final product of that policy making process. It provides an in-depth look at each of these forces, with chapters specifically devoted to how bureaucrats interpret their role in the policy process, how the organizational environment influences their ability to play that role, and, most of all, to the interactions between bureaucrats and the institutions of what we call the Constitutional government: the President, the Congress, and the courts. It does this, all the while reminding us that fitting bureaucracy into a society that views itself as self-governing is no easy task.

Download or read book The State of Public Bureaucracy written by Larry B. Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore the many ways that gender and communication intersect and affect each other. Every chapter encourages a consideration of how gender attitudes and practices, past and current, influence personal notions of what it means not only to be female and male, but feminine and masculine. The second edition of this student friendly and accessible text is filled with contemporary examples, activities, and exercises to help students put theoretical concepts into practice.

Download or read book Politics Policy and Organizations written by George A. Krause and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work provides a new and more accurate guide to the interactions of bureaucracies with other political institutions and the public at large."--Jacket.

Download or read book Power Politics and Public Policy written by Donald L. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucratic Power in National Policy Making written by Francis Edward Rourke and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1986 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics and the Bureaucracy written by Kenneth J. Meier and published by Thomson Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucratic Democracy written by Douglas Yates and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of "bureaucratic democracy," in which governmental decisions increasingly are made in bureaucratic settings, out of the public eye. He describes the rational, selfinterested bureaucrat as a "minimaxer," who inches forward inconspicuously, gradually accumulating larger budgets and greater power, in an atmosphere of segmented pluralism, of conflict and competition, of silent politics. To make the policy process more competitive, democratic, and open, Yates calls for strategic debate among policymakers and bureaucrats and insists that bureaucrats should give a public accounting of their significant decisions rather than bury them in incremental changes. He offers concrete proposals, applicable to federal, state, and local governments, for simplifying the now-chaotic bureaucratic policymaking system and at the same time bolstering representation and openness. This is a book for all political scientists, policymakers, government officials, and concerned citizens. It may well become a classic statement on the workings of public bureaucracy.

Download or read book Bureaucracy Politics and Public Policy written by Francis Edward Rourke and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Bureaucratic Power in National Politics written by Francis Edward Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucratic Power Democracy and Administrative Democracy written by Sŏng-han Im and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying a rigorously theoretical approach, Im (Kangwon National U., Korea) argues that bureaucrats have obtained policymaking power owing to their specialization, technique and access to information. These bureaucrats tend to be without political ideology, a propensity that Im argues is dangerous to democracy when found in a leader. Following a detailed analysis of bureaucrats, bureaucracy, and two lines of political thought?liberal democracy and communism?Im proposes an alternative and improved solution to current bureaucratic forms of power which he calls "administrative democracy". c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book The Effects of Bureaucratic Power on the Policy Process written by Herath Jayatunge and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management theories and practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries encourage elected and public officials to work together constructively during the policymaking and policy implementation process. However, within this process, the 'on-the-ground' relationships that develop between elected and public officials tend to span the spectrum from independent through to interdependent interactions. This thesis reveals that the nature of their relationship has profound effects on policy outcomes, in this case on poverty reduction policies in Sri Lanka. The findings show that the parties involved have a dynamic relationship that develops, over time, in response to tit-for-tat behaviours on the part of each-group behaviours that can be either trust-building or trust-destroying. A central part of this process is the exercise of discretion in the policymaking and policy implementation stages of poverty reduction policy in Sri Lanka. The thesis investigates how bureaucratic power is exercised in the two policy stages of Sri Lanka's poverty reduction policy, questioning how bureaucratic power affects the policy process. In order to reveal the potential influence of bureaucratic power and bureaucratic capacity to enact discretionary power during policymaking and policy implementation, the thesis examines the relationship between elected and public officials, the bureaucratic capacity to exercise discretion in the face of political control and the political capacity to control bureaucratic discretion. It also explores whether such interactions facilitate or interrupt the end purposes of poverty reduction depending on the degree of trust developed between the parties. An investigation of the outcomes of poverty reduction policies in Sri Lanka reveals that there is considerable variability in outcomes, with some geographic regions in the country considered to be high-performing and others low-performing. Implementation of poverty-related policies such as health policy and education policy has shown high performance within metropolitan areas; however, specific poverty reduction policies have not shown similar levels of performance in metropolitan areas. Therefore, a primary aim of this study is to investigate to what extent the level of performance in terms of outcomes is dependent on managerial capacity and functional capability of senior public officials, as well as the nature of the relationship that develops between these parties in the policy process. The key finding of this thesis is that the diverse relationships between elected and public officials are central to the dynamics of the policy process. While the exercise of discretion has been used as a strategy both to overcome the difficulties that elected and public officials face and to build trust, it can also destroy the trust between elected and public officials. The study shows that Sri Lankan policymakers need to address the constructive rather than disruptive aspects of the exercise of discretionary power, because discretion can be used for building trust between elected and public officials during the policy process in order to accomplish policy goals.

Download or read book Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy written by Francis Edward Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Extent and Limits of Bureaucratic Influence Over Public Policy written by Jeffrey E. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bureaucratic Power in National Policy Making written by Francis E. Rourke and published by Scott Foresman & Company. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Political Authority and Bureaucratic Power written by Edward Page and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Policy Making in Defense and Foreign Affairs written by Roger Hilsman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically examining the different methods that both policy makers and scholars have used to analyze policy making and events, this new edition uses each of these different methods to analyze specific case studies. It applies the various models to seven cases: the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles to Cuba, the U.S. decision to bomb North Vietnam, Communist China's invitation to President Nixon to visit, Nixon's acceptance of the invitation, Iran's taking of American hostages, the Iran-Contra affair, and the Gulf war against Iraq. For professionals in the fields of policy making and international relations.