Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765609614 ISBN 13: 9780765609618

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

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. It focuses on the linkages between social origins and life experiences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0765609614
• ISBN 13: 9780765609618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Dolan Julie