Facing the bureaucracy : living and dying in a public agency

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Facing the bureaucracy : living and dying in a public agency

Gerald Garvey

(The Jossey-Bass public administration series)

Jossey-Bass, c1992

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Provides a look inside the American federal bureaucracy and offers insights into the forces, personalities and politics that make changing governmental institutions so difficult.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - from bureaucracy building to bureaucracy bashing. Part 1 Our public bureaucracies - in theory and in practice: old versus new theories of bureaucracy
  • the bureaucracy - what it is and how it works. Part 2 - A case study in organizational innovation: new president, new policy, new chairman at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • regulation and discretion - "Are we in trouble?"
  • launching a project of organizational change
  • the task force as an engine for innovation
  • discretion, negotiation, and litigation
  • bureaucracy under stress - federal investigation and its aftermath. Part 3 Whither bureaucracy?: the paradox of administrative controls
  • to meet the challenge of public management.

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