A Two-way Street: The Institutional Dynamics of the Modern Administrative State (Political Science) - Hardcover

Krause, George A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822941023 ISBN 13: 9780822941026

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999

Synopsis

Concerned with the issue of whether politicians control bureaucracy or if bureaucracy possesses independent authority from democratic institutions of government, this text challenges conventional perspectives by determining the need for a ""two-way street"" between bureaucratic agencies and politics.

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"Krause has made a significant contribution to our understanding of presidential-congressional-bureaucratic relationships. His major contribution is that he pounds another nail - perhaps the final one - in the coffin of principal-agent theorizing and brings us back to traditional political analysis . . . he demonstrates that, however important one of the political branches might be at a given time, American bureaucracies retain sufficient power resources so as to exercise significant degrees of political autonomy - but political outcomes always are contingent.
"--American Political Science Review"

"[Krause] makes a positive contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of bureaucracy. . . . The theory put forth in this book should help those researchers who wish to further examine the bargaining amongst the many parties involved in public administration. Certainly, political economists ought to take the two-way street hypothesis seriously."
"--Public Choice"

"George Krause's new work is a major contribution. He has provided both a sound theoretical basis for the further evolution of the literature and the empirical tools necessary to rigorously do so. This is a masterful work that should influence scholars for many years to come."
"--Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science"

Krause has made a significant contribution to our understanding of presidential-congressional-bureaucratic relationships. His major contribution is that he pounds another nail - perhaps the final one - in the coffin of principal-agent theorizing and brings us back to traditional political analysis . . . he demonstrates that, however important one of the political branches might be at a given time, American bureaucracies retain sufficient power resources so as to exercise significant degrees of political autonomy - but political outcomes always are contingent.
" American Political Science Review""

[Krause] makes a positive contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of bureaucracy. . . . The theory put forth in this book should help those researchers who wish to further examine the bargaining amongst the many parties involved in public administration. Certainly, political economists ought to take the two-way street hypothesis seriously.
" Public Choice""

George Krause's new work is a major contribution. He has provided both a sound theoretical basis for the further evolution of the literature and the empirical tools necessary to rigorously do so. This is a masterful work that should influence scholars for many years to come.
" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science""

"Krause has made a significant contribution to our understanding of presidential-congressional-bureaucratic relationships. His major contribution is that he pounds another nail - perhaps the final one - in the coffin of principal-agent theorizing and brings us back to traditional political analysis . . . he demonstrates that, however important one of the political branches might be at a given time, American bureaucracies retain sufficient power resources so as to exercise significant degrees of political autonomy - but political outcomes always are contingent.
--American Political Science Review

"[Krause] makes a positive contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of bureaucracy. . . . The theory put forth in this book should help those researchers who wish to further examine the bargaining amongst the many parties involved in public administration. Certainly, political economists ought to take the two-way street hypothesis seriously."
--Public Choice

"George Krause's new work is a major contribution. He has provided both a sound theoretical basis for the further evolution of the literature and the empirical tools necessary to rigorously do so. This is a masterful work that should influence scholars for many years to come."
--Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

About the Author

George A. Krause is professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822941023
• ISBN 13: 9780822941026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256