With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the fields of public administration, public management, and public policy The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy is a key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today. INDICE: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Contributors; Preface; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1: Robert F. Durant: A Heritage Made Our Own; PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 2: David Brian Robertson: Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy; 3: Kimberley Johnson: The 'First New Federalism' and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929; 4: Hindy Lauer Schachter: A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform Era Revisited; 5: David H. Rosenbloom: Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public Administrative Theory; 6: Jonathan Koppell: Metaphors and the Development of American Bureaucracy; 7: RobertF. Durant: Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and Administrative Reform Movements; PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 8: B.Dan Wood: Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy; 9: Amy B. Zegart: Agency Design and Evolution; 10: Hal G. Rainey: Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American Bureaucracy; 11: Steven Maynard-Moody & Shannon Portillo: Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory; 12: Donald P. Moynihan: The Promises and Paradoxes of Performance-Based Bureaucracy; 13: Anne M. Khademian: Leading Through Cultural Change; 14: Ralph P. Hummel & Camilla Stivers: Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy; PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 15: H. George Frederickson & Edmund C. Stazyk: Myths, Markets, and the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy; 16: Michael McGuire & Robert Agranoff: Networking in the Shadow of Bureaucracy; 17: Jocelyn M. Johnston & Barbara S. Romzek: The Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting; 18: Wolfgang Bielefeld, JamesL. Perry, & Ann Marie Thomson: 18. Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leveraged Volunteerism; 19: Beryl A. Radin & Paul Posner: Policy Tools, Mandates, and Intergovernmental Relations; 20: Sharon L. Caudle: Promises, Perils, and Performance of Netcentric Bureaucracy; 21: Carolyn J. Hill & Carolyn J. Heinrich: Multilevel Methods in the Study of Bureaucracy; PART V RECALIBRATING POLITICS, RESPONSIVENESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 22: George A. Krause: Legislative Delegation of Authority to Bureaucratic Agencies; 23: Robert F. Durant & William G. Resh: 'Presidentializing' the Bureaucracy; 24: Jerry L. Mashaw: Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Judicial Review; 25: Cornelius Kerwin, Scott Furlong, & William West: Interest Groups, Rulemaking, and American Bureaucracy; 26: Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, & Ashley E. Jochim: Policymaking, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Overhead Democracy; 27: Jonathan Bendor & Thomas H. Hammond: Choice-Theoretic Approaches to Bureaucratic Structure; PART VI REVITALIZING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, RESOURCE CAPACITY, AND ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 28: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?; 29: Norma M. Riccucci: Revitalizing Human Resources Management; 30: Lae
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923895-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 888
- Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2010
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