| Description |
xii, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 vcm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The end of bureaucracy? -- Bureaucracy and the market -- Deprofessionalization and politicization -- 2. Beyond Weber? -- The dominance of the state -- Bureaucracy and the market -- Bureaucracy and capitalism -- Bureaucracy and democracy -- Bureaucracy and political development -- 3. New conceptions of bureaucracy, democracy, and citizenship -- An American revolution -- Beyond cost-cutting: NPM -- Bureaucratic reform and the public interest -- From citizen to customer -- A nation of free-riders -- Statist minimalism and politics -- 4. Popular dissatisfaction and administrative reform -- Popular support for government involvement -- Popular distrust of government -- Bureaucracies and distrust -- 5. Universalistic reforms -- An American blueprint -- Privatization -- Decentralization -- Reduction in state employment -- 6. Emulating the private sector -- The rhetoric and reality of new public management -- An ideal administration? -- Government strategies of reform -- The politics of reform -- Kinds of business-emulating reform -- 7. The reluctant reformers: Japan and France -- Japan -- France -- 8. Deprofessionalization: the decline of the civil service career -- The nature of administrative reform -- Decline of a career -- Japan -- United States -- France -- Distrust of public servants -- 9. Deprofessionalization: the process of politicization -- Reassertion of politics -- NPM and politicization -- Politicization: a rationalist perspective -- United States -- France -- 10. The end of the nonpolitical bureaucracy -- Responsiveness -- Governance today and democracy tomorrow -- Ending a monopoly -- Japan -- Britain -- Germany -- Spain -- 11. Constructing a bureaucratic apparatus in East-Central Europe -- Reform and stability -- Undoing the state: privatization and devolution -- Building a professional bureaucracy -- Reforming ancien regime bureaucracies -- The GDR and a reunified Germany -- Establishing a civil service -- Conclusion: Bureaucracy in the transition phase -- 12. The politics of bureaucratic reform -- Mass democracy and government reform -- Bureaucracy and alienation -- Reforming society or reforming bureaucracy? -- Reforms and the public interest -- The future of bureaucracy. |
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Organizational change.
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Administrative agencies -- Reorganization.
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Privatization.
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Bureaucracy.
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Democracy.
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| ISBN |
0691115346 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA3V8369 |
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