Representative bureaucracy : classic readings and continuing controversies / Julie Dolan and David H. Rosenbloom, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dolan, Julie.

Rosenbloom, David H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy--United States.

Bureaucracy.

United States.

Representative government and representation--United States.

Representative government and representation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 218 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2003.

Summary:

The readings in Representative Bureaucracy provide an efficient guide to the settled knowledge and emerging issues regarding policy and research on democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative of the people they ostensibly serve. The book includes both classic and cutting-edge works and presents a contemporary model for analyzing representative bureaucracy -- focusing on the linkages between social origins, life experiences, attitudes, and administrators' decision making. The selections address many of the leading concerns of contemporary politics, including diversity and equal opportunity policy, democratic control of administration, administrative performance, and "reinventing government." Many of the field's most cited works are included in this comprehensive yet affordable volume. Each chapter starts with an introductory summary of the key questions under consideration and concludes with discussion questions. The book makes the field of representative bureaucracy comprehensively and efficiently accessible to students, scholars, and reflective public managers. It serves as an essential reader for courses on bureaucracy, public administration, or human resource management in the public sector.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Theoretical underpinnings: why does the social background of public administrators matter? Bureaucracy / Max Weber ; Representative bureaucracy / J. Donald Kingsley ; Democracy and the public service / Frederick C. Mosher ; Representative bureaucracy / Samuel Krislov

Ch. 2. Public personnel policy and social representation: how do policies for recruitment, selection, promotion, pay, and retention affect representative bureaucracy? To look like America / Katherine C. Naff ; Measuring bureaucratic representation and integration / David Nachmias and David H. Rosenbloom ; The curious case of women in state and local government / Lee Sigelman ; Black employment in municipal jobs: the impact of black political power / Peter K. Eisinger

Ch. 3. Social representation and public administrators' worldviews: what is the linkage between social background and civil servants' policy preferences? Bureaucracy and social change / Seymour Martin Lipset ; Representative bureaucracy and policy preferences: a study in the attitudes of federal executives / Kenneth John Meier and Lloyd G. Nigro ; Passive and active representation in the federal service: a comparison of blacks and whites / David H. Rosenbloom and Jeannette G. Featherstonhaugh ; Policy preferences on workplace reform / Mary M. Hale and M. Frances Branch ; Ch. 4. Social background, life experience, and policy advocacy: why do civil servants act on policy preferences derived from their social backgrounds and life experiences? Minority groups in public bureaucracies: are passive and active representation linked? / Frank J. Thomson ; The impact of representative bureaucracies: educational systems and public policies / Kenneth J. Meier and Joseph Stewart, Jr. ; Bureaucracy a s a representative institution: toward a reconciliation of bureaucratic government and democratic theory / Sally Coleman Selden, Jeffrey L. Brudney, and J. Edward Kellough ; Progress toward achieving a representative federal bureaucracy: the impact of supervisors and their beliefs / Katherine C. Naff

Ch. 5. "Reinventing government" and representative bureaucracy: the impacts of employee empowerment, outsourcing, and entrepreneurship. Empowering employees to get results / Al Gore ; A demand-side perspective on the importance of representative bureaucracy / Gregory S. Thielemann and Joseph J. Stewart, Jr. ; Faith based furor / Eyal Press ; Entrepreneurship in the public sector: on the horns of a dilemma / Felice D. Perlmutter and Ram A. Cnaan ; The limits of privatism / Timothy Barnekov, Robin Boyle, and Daniel Rich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Representative bureaucracy.

ISBN:

0765609606

9780765609601

0765609614

9780765609618

OCLC:

50560797