Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms

Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms

The study of bureaucracy must include certain key questions: what are bureaucrats and bureaucracies; why do they exist and what are their functions; how do they behave; how much power do they possess; what is their impact on efficiency and production; and how do they affect society? This book contains analyses of all these issues, done by a variety of economists of differing backgrounds, approaches and opinions, broadly categorized under the labels Neoclassical, Institutionalist, and Marxist, although there are overlaps and correspondences that cross ideological and/or paradigmal boundaries. In this book the labels are employed as a guide to the reader with a preference for one approach over the others, and as an indication of how chapters in different sections are related in their approaches.

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Inhaltsangabe

1. The Study of Bureaucracy; N. Garston.
Part I: The Nature of Bureaucracy. 2. The Behavior of
Corporate Bureaucrats; R. Pecchenino. 3. Bureaucracy and
Class in Marxism; P. Chattopadhyay.
4. The Emergence and
Functions of Managerial and Clerical Personnel in Marx's Capital;
G. Duménil, D. Lévy.
5. An Institutionalist
Theory of Bureaucracy: Organizations and Technology; T.R.
DeGregori, R.J. Thompson with D. Shepherd.
Part II:
The Internal Functioning of Bureaucracy. 6. A Model of
Corporate Organizational Structure; M.J. Beckmann.
7. Public Sector Bureaucracy: the Neoclassical Perspective;
P.M. Jackson.
8. Bureaucracy/Technocracy, Market
Structure and Behavior: an Institutionalist's View; J.R.
Munkirs.
Part III: Bureaucracy and Society. 9. The
Economic Functions of Clerical and Managerial Personnel: an Historic
Perspective; G. Duménil, D. Lévy.
10.
Bureaucracy and Society: an Institutionalist Perspective; R.J.
Thompson.
11. Communist Bureaucrats and the Transition to
the Market Economy; A.M. Pilarski.
12. Paradigms,
Insights and Problems; N. Garston. Index.