Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies

Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies
ISBN-10
1134898827
ISBN-13
9781134898824
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2016-04-15
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
David H. Rosenbloom, Julie Dolan

Description

The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative. The book includes both classic and cutting-edge works, and presents a contemporary model for analyzing representative bureaucracy that focuses on the linkages between social origins, life experiences, attitudes, and administrators' decision making. The selections address many of the leading concerns of contemporary politics, including diversity and equal opportunity policy, democratic control of administration, administrative performance, the pros and cons of the new public management, and reinventing government. Many of the field's most cited works are included. Each chapter starts with an introductory summary of the key questions under consideration and concludes with discussion questions. With it's extensive selection of classic and contemporary readings, the book will have wide application for courses on bureaucracy, public administration, and public sector human resource management.

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