Bureaucracy : three paradigms / edited by Neil Garston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garston, Neil.

Series:

Recent economic thought series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1993]

Summary:

The study of bureaucracy must include certain key questions: what are bureaucrats and bureaucracies; why do they exist and what are their functions; how do they behave; how much power do they possess; what is their impact on efficiency and production; and how do they affect society? This book contains analyses of all these issues, done by a variety of economists of differing backgrounds, approaches and opinions, broadly categorized under the labels Neoclassical, Institutionalist, and Marxist, although there are overlaps and correspondences that cross ideological and/or paradigmal boundaries. In this book the labels are employed as a guide to the reader with a preference for one approach over the others, and as an indication of how chapters in different sections are related in their approaches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0792393775

OCLC:

28218189