Red tape, its origins, uses, and abuses / Herbert Kaufman ; foreword by Philip K. Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Herbert, 1922- author.

Howard, Philip K., author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Brookings Classic

The Brookings classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy--United States.

Bureaucracy.

Executive departments--United States--Management.

Executive departments.

Public administration--United States.

Public administration.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.

Summary:

Death, taxes, and red tape. The inevitable trio no one can escape. That wry sense of reality colors Herbert Kaufman's classic study of red tape, the bureaucratic phenomenon that all of us have encountered in some form-from the confounding tax form filled out annually to the maddeningly time-consuming wait at the driver's license bureau.The complaints about red tape, Kaufman concedes, are legion. It's messy, it takes too long, it lacks local knowledge, it is out of date, it makes insane demands, it increases costs, it slows progress. It is, in short, a burden and many times there is no measurab

Contents:

Front Cover; Table of Contents; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; Exordium; Object of Loathing; Of Our Own Making; Rewinding the Spools; Notes; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815717751

081571775X

OCLC:

910513365