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Author : Roy D Perkins
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662426348
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Bureaucracy Run Amok written by Roy D Perkins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bureaucracy Run Amok by Roy D Perkins __________________________________
Author : Martin van Creveld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521656290
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the State written by Martin van Creveld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume traces the history of the state from its beginnings to the present day.
Author : Julio Carrión
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271027470
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Fujimori Legacy written by Julio Carrión and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive assessment of President Alberto Fujimori's regime in the context of Latin America's struggle to consolidate democracy after years of authoritarian rule. This book also helps illuminate the persistent obstacles that Latin American countries face in establishing democracy.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612193757
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Utopia of Rules written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy. Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible. An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine for ourselves.
Author : Robert F. Durant
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191628336
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy written by Robert F. Durant and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges, choices, and opportunities this dilemma poses for governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives, is methodologically diverse, and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading scholars think it should go in the future. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Author : Steven O. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136868771
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Bureaucracy written by Steven O. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementation as an economic process. It addresses the common and vexing question of why managing federal agencies for results is so difficult by challenging traditional assumptions of institutional design and policy analysis. Using creative methods that focus on relationships that constrain the choices of executives and managers in a political hierarchy, the author reveals control and coordination as goals that are imperfectly achieved and often conflicting with one another. Despite decades of intense study, serious reform efforts and impressive technological advances, the U.S. government remains a typical bureaucracy that fails to meet citizens’ expectations. Clearly, policy analysis is missing something. The problem may rest with "machine" models of government. Rules, especially those governing expenditures, are assumed to be feasible and effective. Analysis of the federal government as a complex system of relationships between semi-autonomous agents helps explain the disconnect between policy and results. The solution is to roll back micro-management of ends and means; policymakers should focus on objectives and facilitate implementation by selectively relaxing constraints that prevent experimentation needed to determine the most effective methods. This book devotes unusual attention to the interaction between executive and legislative branches of government and between political appointees and career civil servants. Most studies of government policy take existing institutional structure for granted. Different conclusions emerge from this analysis by virtue of the systems view that accepts status quo hierarchies but questions the effectiveness of the rules that govern policy implementation. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers focussing on Economic Theory, Public Choice, Institutional Economics and Political Science, as well as to those working in the public sector interested in Public Administration, Public Policy, and Organizational Behavior.
Author : Arthur Lupia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263725
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Uninformed written by Arthur Lupia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering even basic questions about government incorrectly. Given this unfortunate state of affairs, it is not surprising that more knowledgeable people often deride the public for its ignorance. Some experts even think that less informed citizens should stay out of politics altogether. As Arthur Lupia shows in Uninformed, this is not constructive. At root, critics of public ignorance fundamentally misunderstand the problem. Many experts believe that simply providing people with more facts will make them more competent voters. However, these experts fail to understand how most people learn, and hence don't really know what types of information are even relevant to voters. Feeding them information they don't find relevant does not address the problem. In other words, before educating the public, we need to educate the educators. Lupia offers not just a critique, though; he also has solutions. Drawing from a variety of areas of research on topics like attention span and political psychology, he shows how we can actually increase issue competence among voters in areas ranging from gun regulation to climate change. To attack the problem, he develops an arsenal of techniques to effectively convey to people information they actually care about. Citizens sometimes lack the knowledge that they need to make competent political choices, and it is undeniable that greater knowledge can improve decision making. But we need to understand that voters either don't care about or pay attention to much of the information that experts think is important. Uninformed provides the keys to improving political knowledge and civic competence: understanding what information is important to and knowing how to best convey it to them.
Author : Kenneth J. Meier
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883576
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Bureaucracy in a Democratic State written by Kenneth J. Meier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840309
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Facing the Challenge of Democracy written by Paul M. Sniderman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature. Paul Sniderman and Benjamin Highton bring together leading political scientists who offer new insights into the political thinking of the public, the causes of party polarization, the motivations for political participation, and the paradoxical relationship between turnout and democratic representation. These studies propel a foundational argument about democracy. Voters can only do as well as the alternatives on offer. These alternatives are constrained by third players, in particular activists, interest groups, and financial contributors. The result: voters often appear to be shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent because the alternatives they must choose between are shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent. Facing the Challenge of Democracy features contributions by John Aldrich, Stephen Ansolabehere, Edward Carmines, Jack Citrin, Susanna Dilliplane, Christopher Ellis, Michael Ensley, Melanie Freeze, Donald Green, Eitan Hersh, Simon Jackman, Gary Jacobson, Matthew Knee, Jonathan Krasno, Arthur Lupia, David Magleby, Eric McGhee, Diana Mutz, Candice Nelson, Benjamin Page, Kathryn Pearson, Eric Schickler, John Sides, James Stimson, Lynn Vavreck, Michael Wagner, Mark Westlye, and Tao Xie.
Author : John Echeverri-Gent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190991283
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Politics written by John Echeverri-Gent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In careers that spanned six decades, Padma Bhushan award winners Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph elaborated seminal insights about Indian politics. The Rudolphs’ rigorous and remarkably empathetic study of India coupled with their extensive reading of social science theory served as the basis for their development of a broader interpretive mode of political analysis centered on the complex processes by which people construct meaning and motivation for political action. The eminent contributors to this volume pay tribute to the Rudolphs’ scholarship by examining its contributions to their own cutting-edge research as they advance the frontiers of the study of Indian politics and social science writ large. Their engaging essays analyze vital topics including how ‘situated knowledge’ shapes discourse, moral imagination, political strategies, and institutional change. They apply this interpretive approach to Indian politics to illuminate how the interaction of caste, class, gender, and religion has structured political mobilization, how changing social and political relations have affected education policy and civil–military relations, and how political leadership is forging the future of Indian politics.
Author : Rena I. Steinzor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773447
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Mother Earth and Uncle Sam written by Rena I. Steinzor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the past twenty years, has failed to protect children from harm caused by toxic chemicals. She believes these failures—under-funding, excessive and misguided use of cost/benefit analysis, distortion of science, and devolution of regulatory authority—have produced a situation in which harm that could be reduced or eliminated instead persists. Steinzor states that, as a society, we are neglecting our children's health to an extent that we would find unthinkable as individual parents, primarily due to the erosion of the government's role in protecting public health and the environment. At this pace, she asserts, our children will inherit a planet under grave threat. We can arrest these developments if a critical mass of Americans become convinced that these problems are urgent and the solutions are near at hand. By focusing on three specific case studies—mercury contamination through the human food chain, perchlorate (rocket fuel) in drinking water, and the effects of ozone (smog) on children playing outdoors—Steinzor creates an analysis grounded in law, economics, and science to prove her assertions about the existing dysfunctional system. Steinzor then recommends a concise and realistic series of reforms that could reverse these detrimental trends and serve as a blueprint for restoring effective governmental intervention. She argues that these recommendations offer enough material to guide government officials and advocacy groups toward prompt implementation, for the sake of America's—and the world's—future generations.
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University
ISBN 13 : 0195161912
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Garner's Modern American Usage written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 2003 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.
Author : Barbara A. Ray
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788149078
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services written by Barbara A. Ray and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides descriptive information about the national flow of admissions to speciality providers of substance abuse treatment (SAT). Consistent data from 1992 through 1995 are presented from a panel of 37 states; this panel is also used to chart national trends. Also included are aggregate profiles & state level data for calendar year 1995, as well as supporting tables & appendices. The main findings are that those admitted to SAT have problems beyond their dependence on drugs & alcohol, being disadvantaged in education & employment when compared to the general population. Extensive charts & tables.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Federal Nutrition Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788149164
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Federal Nutrition Programs written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testimony and prepared statements by U.S. Senators, as well as representatives from the Wisc. Dept. of Health and Social Services, Mich. Dept. of Social Services, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Food Marketing Inst., Food Research and Action Center, Nat. Child and Adult Care Food Program Sponsors Forum, American Food Service Assoc., and the Nat. Assoc. of WIC Directors. Additional position statements from the American Dietetic Assoc., American Farm Bureau Fed., Lafayette Urban Ministry, Nat. Treasury Employees Union, Jewish Community Relations Council, and Prevention of Child Abuse.
Author : Eric E. Otenyo
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0762313595
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Comparative Public Administration written by Eric E. Otenyo and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. This title brings together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary public management scholarship.
Author : Rebecca S. Natow
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142147X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Higher Education Rulemaking written by Rebecca S. Natow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at how federal regulatory policy for higher education is drafted, influenced, and enacted. Many higher education academics and administrators have only vague notions about how the federal government makes regulations governing colleges and universities in the United States, and yet these regulations control many important aspects of the operation of these institutions. What happens after legislation affecting higher education is signed into law? How are specific provisions implemented—especially when the statute’s details are unclear? And who determines the details of the programs that a particular law has authorized? In this concise and informative book, higher education policy expert Rebecca S. Natow explores the how and why of the federal regulatory policymaking process as it pertains to higher education, financial aid, and student loan debt. Drawing on in-depth interviews with policy and higher education actors, as well as an extensive review of specific regulations and documents, Natow explains who influences higher education rulemaking and how their beliefs and surrounding contexts guide the policies they enact. She also examines the strategies and powers employed during the process, reveals how technology affects the creation of higher education rules, delves into the multifaceted implications of regulation for students and institutions, and discusses future prospects for higher education rulemaking. The first comprehensive, research-based account of this important policymaking process, Higher Education Rulemaking will serve as a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, policymakers, and higher education professionals.
