[PDF] Bureaucracy And Society In Transition eBook

Author : Haldor Byrkjeflot
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178743284X

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Despite criticism of inefficiencies and unlimited growth, bureaucracies still fill crucial positions in modern societies. This volume examines ‘varieties in bureaucracies’ across Europe, with a specific focus on the Nordic region.

Author : Randall Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313073503

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Baker and his colleagues provide a blend of the theoretical and the empirical evidence in an examination of the nature of bureaucracy under non-democratic, authoritarian forms of government, whether on the right, as in Portugal, or the left, as in Bulgaria. In all these instances, the bureaucracy was constructed to serve the distorted interests of centralized, unaccountable power. Following the remarkable spread of democracy in the seventies in Iberia, the eighties in much of Latin America, parts of Asia and Africa, and the nineties in the former USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries, the main focus was on reforming the economy and the political institutions. Distinguished scholars concentrate on the inherited bureaucracy--the arm of government with which the people most often have to deal. They highlight the undemocratic, and sometimes antidemocratic, nature of the civil service that is supposed to serve democracy. Others consider the nature of reform as experienced, and as needed, why there is no major policy for real reform of the bureaucracy in many countries, and the similar experience of reforming from the left and the right. Contributors discuss specific experiences as case studies and examine the more general question of what lessons can be learned from this unique perspective into comparative public administration reform. Essential reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and others involved with comparative government and public administration.

Author : Xiaoqin Guo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1135944180

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This book examines China's process of democratic transition, and the role of state and society in this process.

Author : Richard C. Box
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9780765623584

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Part I. Introduction to the Central Issues: Context, Change, and Democracy 1 Chapter 1. Scope and Content of Public Administration 3 Instrumental and Contextual Public Administration 4 The Unique Public Sector 5 Coercion and Government 7 Scope and Content of American Governments 9 Chapter 2. Time and Change: The Environment of Public Administration 11 Predispositions and Freedom of Thought 12 Recurring Themes 13 A Picture of Change 15 Historical Peculiarity 17 Historical Similarity 18 Change and Economics 20 Chapter 3. Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure 23 Democratic Citizenship 24 Precursors of American Democracy 25 Toward a New American Government 27 Contemporary Public Service Institutions 31 Republican Form of Government 32 The "Vertical" Structure of Government 33 The "Horizontal" Structure of Government 34 Politics and Administration 36 Transition 38 Part II. Debate and Decision in the Founding Era 41 The Federalist Papers 42 Federalist Papers 10, 17, and 51 43 The Anti-Federalist Response and Tocqueville's Concerns About Democracy 45 The Ideas of the Founding Generation in the Present 46 Reading 2.1 The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51 47 Reading 2.2 Introduction to The Federalist Papers Reader, Frederick Quinn 59 Reading 2.3 Interpretative Essay, W.B. Allen, Gordon Lloyd, and Margie Lloyd 81 Reading 2.4 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, Alexis de Tocqueville 87 Reading 2.5 The Future of the American Bureaucratic System, Richard J. Stillman II 91 Part III. Community and the Individual 121 Reading 3.1 The Public Realm, Thomas E. McCollough 125 Reading 3.2 Barn Raising, Daniel Kemmis 147 Reading 3.3 The Nature of Community Governance, Richard C. Box 159 Part IV. Social Equity and Economic Efficiency 183 Reading 4.1 Unequal America: Causes and Consequences of the Wide-and Growing-Gap Between Rich and Poor, Elizabeth Gudrais 187 Reading 4.2 Introduction to New Public Administration, H. George Frederickson 199 Reading 4.3 Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice, Richard C. Box 207 Part V. The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society 229 Reading 5.1 Practitioners, Richard C. Box 233 Reading 5.2 New Public Management and Substantive Democracy, Richard C. Box, Gary S. Marshall, B.J. Reed, and Christine M. Reed 249 Reading 5.3 Citizens and Administrators: Roles and Relationships, Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers 267 Reading 5.4 Transforming Citizenship and Governance, Claire Mostel 283.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Dead Authors Society
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
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ISBN : 9781773230467

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Author Ludwig von Mises was concerned with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. While he does not deny the necessity of certain bureaucratic structures for the smooth operation of any civilized state, he disagrees with the extent to which it has come to dominate the public life of European countries and the United States. The author's purpose is to demonstrate that the negative aspects of bureaucracy are not so much a result of bad policies or corruption as the public tends to think but are the bureaucratic structures due to the very tasks these structures have to deal with. The main body of the book is therefore devoted to a comparison between private enterprise on the one hand and bureaucratic agencies/public enterprise on the other.