Bureaucracy and self-government : reconsidering the role of public administration in American politics / Brian J. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Brian J., 1954- author.

Series:

Interpreting American politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy--United States--History.

Bureaucracy.

Public administration--United States--History.

Public administration.

History.

United States.

Representative government and representation--United States--History.

Representative government and representation.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 268 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Summary:

A thorough update to this well-regarded political history of American public administration. -- In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, Cook offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about "big government." -- Cook enriches his historical analysis with new scholarship and extends that analysis to the present, taking account of significant developments since the mid-1990s. Each chapter has been updated, and two new chapters sharpen Cook's argument for recognizing a constitutive dimension in normative theorizing about public administration. The second edition also includes reviews of Jeffersonian impacts on administrative theory and practice and Jacksonian developments in national administrative structures and functions, a look at the administrative theorizing that presaged progressive reforms in civil service, and insight into the confounding complexities that characterize public thinking about administration in a postmodern political order.

Contents:

1 Public Administration as Instrument and Institution 1

2 Preserving the Chain of Dependence: The Ideas of the Founding and Early Republic 32

3 Restoring Republican Virtue: The Impact of Jacksonian Ideals 63

4 Perfecting the Neutral Instrument: Transformations of the Second State and Progressive Reforms 86

5 Serving the Liberal State: Administration and the Rise of the New Deal Political Order 129

6 Politics and Administration after the New Deal: Liberal Orthodoxy and Its Challenges 160

7 The Constitutive Dimension of Public Administration: Appreciating Consequences 187

8 Bureaucracy and the Future of American Self-Government 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1421415526

9781421415529

9781421415512

1421415518

OCLC:

884500123

Publisher Number:

99960135271