Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Language: English
Published by The University of Alabama Press, 1988
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"Comparing Public Bureaucracies: Problems of Theory and Method" is based on the Coleman B. Ransone, Jr. Lectures delivered by the author in 1986 at The University of Alabama. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320. . 1988. 1st. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Comparing Public Bureaucracies
- Author
- Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government B Guy, Professor (University of Pittsburgh, USA Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pitt
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Publication year
- 1988
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- Soft cover
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- English
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- 0817303685
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A foundational guide to understanding how bureaucracies differ—and why those differences matter.
The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual fashion? Comparing Public Bureaucracies seeks to understand why. One of the principal answers is that there is no readily accepted and dependent variable that would allow comparative public administration to conform to the usual canons of social research. In contrast, comparative public policy has a ready-made dependent variable in public expenditure.
Peters discusses four possible dependent variables for comparative public administration. The first is personnel—the number and type of people who work for government. Second, the number and type of organizations that form government can suggest a great deal about the structure of government. Third, the behavior of members is obviously important for understanding what actually happens in government—such as the extents to which bureaucracies approximate the budget-maximizing behavior posited by economists. Ginally, the relative power of civil servants in the policymaking process is a major factor in institutional politics in contemporary industrial societies.
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Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
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