Politics, policy, and organizations : frontiers in the scientific study of bureaucracy

Author(s)

• Krause, George A.
• Meier, Kenneth J.

Bibliographic Information

Politics, policy, and organizations : frontiers in the scientific study of bureaucracy

edited by George A. Krause & Kenneth J. Meier

University of Michigan Press, c2003

• : cloth
• : pbk

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• Politics, policy, and organizations : frontiers in the scientific study of bureaucracy / edited by George A. Krause & Kenneth J. Meier.

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Note

Original scholarly essays based on a workshop, The Scientific Study of Bureaucracy, held at the fifth Public Management Conference, Texas A&M University, Dec. 3-4, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-339) and indexes

First paperback edition 2005

Contents of Works

• The scientific study of bureaucracy : an overview / Kenneth J. Meier and George A. Krause
• Why do bureaucrats delay? : lessons from a stochastic optimal stopping model of agency timing, with applications to the FDA / Daniel P. Carpenter
• Agency risk propensities involving the demand for bureaucratic discretion / George A. Krause
• Veto points, policy preferences, and bureaucratic autonomy in democratic systems / Thomas H. Hammond
• The benefits of agency policy-making : perspectives from positive theory / David B. Spence
• Donut shops, speed traps, and paperwork : supervision and the allocation of time to bureaucratic tasks / John Brehm, Scott Gates, and Brad Gomez
• Adapting agencies : competition, imitation, and punishment in the design of bureaucratic performance / Andrew B. Whitford
• Consensual rule making and the time it takes to develop rules / Steven J. Balla and John R. Wright
• Why it matters whether state bureaucrats as opposed to federal bureaucrats administer federal programs / Lael R. Keiser
• Structural choice and political control of bureaucracy : updating federal credit programs / Kevin Corder
• Administrative structure and social democratic results : the case of education / Kevin B. Smith
• Bureaucratic discretion and regulatory success without enforcement / Michael J. Licari
• Conclusion : an agenda for the scientific study of bureaucracy / Kenneth J. Meier and George A. Krause

Details

• NCID: BA64809876
• ISBN:
  • 0472113178
  • 0472031147
• LCCN: 2003044772
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ann Arbor
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 352 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD38.4
  • DC21 : 351
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Bureaucracy
  • LCSH : Public administration