[PDF] Bounded Bureaucracy And The Budgetary Process In The United States eBook

Author : Jay Ryu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351530925

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Bureaucracies have been criticized from various perspectives and blamed for a variety of failings. Critics have claimed that bureaucracies are too focused on conforming to rules rather than achieving an organization's core mission. Bureaucracies are said to oppress human freedom because of their orientation toward hierarchical control. Bureaucratic organizations are also said to be unable to deal effectively with public problems that span multiple administrative jurisdictions; they do not reach beyond their own organizational boundaries. This book provides solid data on how bureaucracies can expedite information processing and reduce organizational conflicts. Jay Eungha Ryu finds that the functions of bureaucracies are highly dependent upon external political conditions. Whether the executive and legislative branches are dominated by the same party significantly influences the ability of bureaucracies to function effectively. Ryu notes that the merits of bureaucratic centralization are worth close attention. Numerous attempts, including performance budgeting systems, have been made to improve bureaucratic malfunctions. However, such reform initiatives are doomed to failure, he argues, unless they employ a core feature of bureaucracy itself, centralization. Ryu defines bureaucratic centralization at its best as bounded bureaucracy. If well managed, bounded bureaucracy can substantially improve the rational behavior of organizations and reduce institutional frictions.

Author : John A. Marini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135844348

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First Published in 1992. The federal budget has attained unparalleled significance at the heart of American politics in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The modern budget system has become the mechanism by which a distinctively American administrative state was put in place and made operative. The growth of the administrative state has transformed politics in America, but many Americans are unaware of its existence. This study looks at budget control within the realms of Congress, the Presidency and the development of the Administrative State.

Author : Thomas E. Borcherding
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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"Originally these essays were developed as papers given at the ... Workshop on Non-market Bureaucracy held at V.P.I.'s Center for the Study of Public Choice during the academic year 1972-73."

Author : Paul Winfree
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 9783030309602

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The United States has one of the most unique budgeting processes of any modern government. The "powers of the purse" are enumerated under the Constitution, but they were hotly debated by the nation's founding fathers. However, the lack of a legal guide for exactly how to delegate the powers, and under what conditions, has led to a process marked by power struggles-primarily between Congress and the presidency-over the last 230 years. Still, the budget and appropriations process is central to the functioning of the federal government. This book covers the transformation of American government through the lens of shifting budgeting power, while documenting the evolution of economic policy through the federal budget. As the nation and the federal government have expanded, the budget process has entirely broken down. This book also recommends changes that would help the budget process function more effectively. The chapters are organized both chronologically and topically to help the reader think through the evolution of the budget process. With its comprehensive approach to the history of the budget process-covering the entirety of US federal existence-this book will be a go-to resource for academics and public policy professionals interested in Congressional and executive history.

Author : Douglas Yates
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674086111

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Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of "bureaucratic democracy," in which governmental decisions increasingly are made in bureaucratic settings, out of the public eye. He describes the rational, selfinterested bureaucrat as a "minimaxer," who inches forward inconspicuously, gradually accumulating larger budgets and greater power, in an atmosphere of segmented pluralism, of conflict and competition, of silent politics. To make the policy process more competitive, democratic, and open, Yates calls for strategic debate among policymakers and bureaucrats and insists that bureaucrats should give a public accounting of their significant decisions rather than bury them in incremental changes. He offers concrete proposals, applicable to federal, state, and local governments, for simplifying the now-chaotic bureaucratic policymaking system and at the same time bolstering representation and openness. This is a book for all political scientists, policymakers, government officials, and concerned citizens. It may well become a classic statement on the workings of public bureaucracy.

Author : Justin Esarey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :

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ABSTRACT: Who, if anyone, controls the massive government bureaucracy responsible for the elaboration, implementation, and enforcement of laws and executive orders? Typical managerial techniques---screening, reward, and punishment---are hampered by the rules of the civil service system. All but the most senior bureaucrats are hired and promoted according a non-political examination and review system, and most are protected from punishment or termination by tenure. I argue that the executive can control the bureaucracy by creating competition for budget allocations within and between agencies, a process I call strategic budgeting. These incentives work under realistic assumptions: highly imperfect monitoring, bounded rationality of executives and bureaucrats, ideological motivations, and professional norms are all a part of the model. I test the predictions of my theory in the laboratory and in data from the American states, finding evidence to confirm that strategic budgeting is an effective strategy for bureaucratic management.

Author : Jay Eungha Ryu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317455088

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This primer succinctly summarises key theoretical concepts in fiscal choice for both practitioners and scholars. The author contends that fiscal choice is ultimately a choice of both politics and economics. The book first introduces budget institutions and processes at various levels of government, which restrict budget decision makers' discretion. It also explains budget decision makers' efforts to make rational resource allocations. It then shows how and why such efforts are stymied by the decision makers' capacity and institutional settings. The book's unique benefit is its emphasis on all the essential topics, with short, module-type chapters which can be read in any order.

Author : Bertrand Badie
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 4033 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1452266492

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