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Reforming bureaucracy : the politics of institutional choice
- Author
- Knott, Jack H., 1947-
- Title
- Reforming bureaucracy : the politics of institutional choice / Jack H. Knott, Gary J. Miller.
- Format
- Online Resource Book
- Published
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1987.
- Description
- x, 290 pages ; 23 cm
- Other contributors
- Miller, Gary J.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Bureaucracy and boss politics
- Progressive reform : constituencies, prescriptions, tactics
- Scientific management and professionalism
- Progressivism to the New Deal : reform principles become the administrative orthodoxy
- Assessing the reform model : is it efficient?
- Assessing the reform model :is it really neutral?
- Assessing the reform model : is it accountable?
- Explaining bureaucratic dysfunctions : two models
- The politics of administrative reform : individual rationality vs. social irrationality
- The quest for technical efficiency : budget reform
- The quest for neutral competence : personnel reform
- Institutional choice : assessing the alternatives.
- Subject headings
- Bureaucracy--United States. Administrative agencies--United States--Reorganization. Administrative agencies--United States--Management--Decision making. Public administration--Decision making.
- Other subjects
- United States Public administration Bureaucracy
- ISBN
- 0137700903 (pbk.) 9780137700905 (pbk.)