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Title The Oxford handbook of American bureaucracy / edited by Robert F. Durant
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 864 pages)
Series The Oxford handbooks of American politics
Oxford handbooks of American politics.
Contents Introduction. A heritage made our own / Robert F. Durant -- Reconceptualizing the history of American bureaucracy?. Historical institutionalism, political development, and the study of American bureaucracy / David Brian Robertson ; The "first new federalism" and the development of the administrative state, 1883-1929 / Kimberley Johnson ; A gendered legacy : the progressive reform era revisited / Hindy Lauer Schachter ; Reevaluating executive-centered public administrative theory / David H. Rosenbloom ; Metaphors and the development of American bureaucracy / Jonathan G.S. Koppell ; Herbert Hoover's revenge : politics, policy, and administrative reform movements / Robert F. Durant -- Rethinking rationality in American bureaucracy?. Agency theory and the bureaucracy / B. Dan Wood ; Agency design and evolution / Amy B. Zegart ; Goal ambiguity and the study of American bureaucracy / Hal G. Rainey ; Street-level bureaucracy theory / Steven Maynard-Moody and Shannon Portillo ; The promises and paradoxes of performance-based bureaucracy / Donald P. Moynihan ; Leading through cultural change / Anne M. Khademian ; Postmodernism, bureaucracy, and democracy / Ralph P. Hummel and Camilla Stivers -- Redrawing the boundaries of American bureaucracy?. Myths, markets, and the "visible hand" of American Bureaucracy / H. George Frederickson and Edmund C. Stazyk ; Networking in the shadow of bureaucracy / Michael McGuire and Robert Agranoff ; The promises, performance, and pitfalls of government contracting / Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek ; Reluctant partners : nonprofit collaboration, social entrepreneurship, and leveraged volunteerism / Wolfgang Bielefeld, James L. Perry, and Ann Marie Thomson ; Policy tools, mandates, and intergovernmental relations / Beryl A. Radin and Paul Posner ; Promises, perils, and performance of netcentric bureaucracy / Sharon L. Caudle ; Multilevel methods in the study of bureaucracy / Carolyn J. Heinrich and Carolyn J. Hill -- Recalibrating politics, responsiveness, and accountability in American bureaucracy?. Legislative delegation of authority to bureaucratic agencies / George A. Krause ; "Presidentializing" the bureaucracy / Robert F. Durant and William G. Resh ; Bureaucracy, democracy, and judicial review / Jerry L. Mashaw ; Interest groups, rulemaking, and American bureaucracy / Cornelius Kerwin, Scott Furlong, and William West ; Policymaking, bureaucratic discretion, and overhead democracy / Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, and Ashley E. Jochim ; Choice-theoretic approaches to bureaucratic structure / Jonathan Bendor and Thomas H. Hammond -- Revitalizing the constitutional, resource capacity, and ethical foundations of American bureaucracy?. Has governance eclipsed government? / Laurence E. Lynn, Jr ; Revitalizing human resources management / Norma M. Riccucci ; Representative bureaucracy / Lael R. Keiser ; Innovations in budgeting and financial management / Daniel R. Mullins and John L. Mikesell ; The prospects for revitalizing ethics in a new governance era / Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour ; Experimental methods, agency incentives, and the study of bureaucratic behavior / Gary J. Miller and Andrew B. Whitford
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Bureaucracy -- United States
Bureaucracy -- United States -- History
Civil service -- United States.
Civil service -- United States -- History
Bureaucracy
Civil service
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Durant, Robert F., 1949-
ISBN 9780191594694
0191594695