Can I read Taming the Bureaucracy : Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies on EtoBox?

Taming the Bureaucracy : Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies by Gormley, William T., Jr., William T. Gormley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Taming the Bureaucracy : Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies about?

Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has emerged with a weaker, less autonomous bureaucracy. In a book that will interest not only public administration specialists but students of American government generally, William Gormley examines the consequences of the reform efforts of the 1970s and 1980s and seeks to understand why, despite an astonishing number of these efforts, we remain dissatisfied with the results. "The American bureaucracy is beleaguered and besieged," writes Gormley. ". . . Unfortunately, the bureaucracy's critics are equally capable of blunders." The author explains our situation by analyzing a spectrum of controls ranging from catalytic to hortatory to coercive. Catalytic controls--such as proxy advocacy, environmental impact statements, and freedom-of-information acts--are most flexible, while coercive controls--such as legislative vetoes, executive orders, and judicial take-overs of state

Who reads Taming the Bureaucracy : Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies?

Author

Gormley, William T., Jr., William T. Gormley

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691078069

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Military