Bureaucracy and Public Choice gives a theoretical and empirical appraisal of modern bureaucracy. It argues that bureaucracies and bureaucrats are indispensable in the making and implementation of public choice.
Explanations of bureaucracy range from the Weberian model - with bureaucracy maximising rationality - to the interpretation of the garbage-can' scholars - presenting bureaucracy as organized chaos. The book first considers approaches to understanding bureaucratic behaviour in organizational sociology, economics, and decision-making theory.
The concepts of bureaucratic efficiency and accountability are discussed at length. The political culture of a country is shown to influence the relationship between bureaucrats, politicians and the electorate, affecting both their efficiency and accountability.
The status of bureaucracies is shown to depend on whether they deliver the goods according to normative criteria. The book makes these criteria explicit and assesses the extent to which bureaucracies are capable of meeting them.
A critical synthesis of social theory about government, bureaucracy, and law
First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted.
The earlier volume contained a majority of articles on the theory and measurement of rent - seeking , with a particular emphasis on the social costs of monopoly . Cowling and Mueller in their reprinted contribution concluded that our ...
A selection of essays examining economic policy and politics in the United States.
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Government Failure heralds a new approach to the study of politics and public policy. This book enlightens readers with the basic concepts of public choice in an unusually accessible way to show the folly of excessive faith in the state.
This view is of course derived directly from the analyses of David Hume and his successor Adam Smith . ... of Adam Smith , vol . 2 , edited by R. H. CAMPBELL , ANDREW S. SKINNER and W. B. TODD , Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1976 . 1.
Understanding Democracy: An Introduction to Public Choice
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This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised.