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This Book Attacks The Conventional Wisdom That Bureaucrats Are Bunglers And The System Can't Be Changed. Michael Barzelay And Babak Armajani Trace The Source Of Much Poor Performance In Government To The Persistent Influence Of What They Call The Bureaucratic Paradigm--a Theory Built On Such Notions As Central Control, Economy And Efficiency, And Rigid Adherence To Rules. Rarely Questioned, The Bureaucratic Paradigm Leads Competent And Faithful Public Servants--as Well As Politicians--unwittingly To Impair Government's Ability To Serve Citizens By Weakening, Misplacing, And Misdirecting Accountability. How Can This System Be Changed? Drawing On Research Sponsored By The Ford Foundation/harvard University Program On Innovations In State And Local Government, This Book Tells The Story Of How Public Officials In One State, Minnesota, Cast Off The Conceptual Blinders Of The Bureaucratic Paradigm And Experimented With Ideas Such As Customer Service, Empowering Front-line Employees To Resolve Problems, And Selectively Introducing Market Forces Within Government. The Author Highlights The Arguments Government Executives Made For The Changes They Proposed, Traces The Way These Changes Were

Author

Barzelay, Michael; Armajani, Babak J

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520078017

Subjects

Management, Political Science, Military