The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Durant, Robert F.

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges, choices, and opportunities this dilemma poses for governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives, is methodologically diverse, and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading scholars think it should go in the future. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191628337
• Artikelnr.: 38149731

Autorenporträt

Robert F. Durant is Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where is also Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy. He has authored or co-authored national award-winning articles and books in the fields of Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Management, the Presidency, and Environmental and Natural Resources Policy. He has received the Charles H. Levine Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Administration research, teaching, and service. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* About the Contributors
* Preface
* PART I INTRODUCTION
* 1: Robert F. Durant: A Heritage Made Our Own
* PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
* 2: David Brian Robertson: Historical Institutionalism, Political
Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy
* 3: Kimberley Johnson: The 'First New Federalism' and the Development
of the Administrative State, 1883-1929
* 4: Hindy Lauer Schachter: A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform
Era Revisited
* 5: David H. Rosenbloom: Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public
Administrative Theory
* 6: Jonathan Koppell: Metaphors and the Development of American
Bureaucracy
* 7: Robert F. Durant: Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and
Administrative Reform Movements
* PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
* 8: B. Dan Wood: Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy
* 9: Amy B. Zegart: Agency Design and Evolution
* 10: Hal G. Rainey: Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American
Bureaucracy
* 11: Steven Maynard-Moody and Shannon Portillo: Street-Level
Bureaucracy Theory
* 12: Donald P. Moynihan: The Promises and Paradoxes of
Performance-Based Bureaucracy
* 13: Anne M. Khademian: Leading Through Cultural Change
* 14: Ralph P. Hummel and Camilla Stivers: Postmodernism, Bureaucracy,
and Democracy
* PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
* 15: H. George Frederickson and Edmund C. Stazyk: Myths, Markets, and
the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy
* 16: Michael McGuire and Robert Agranoff: Networking in the Shadow of
Bureaucracy
* 17: Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek: The Promises,
Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting
* 18: Wolfgang Bielefeld, James L. Perry, and Ann Marie Thomson: 18.
Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship,
and Leveraged Volunteerism
* 19: Beryl A. Radin and Paul Posner: Policy Tools, Mandates, and
Intergovernmental Relations
* 20: Sharon L. Caudle: Promises, Perils, and Performance of Netcentric
Bureaucracy
* 21: Carolyn J. Hill and Carolyn J. Heinrich: Multilevel Methods in
the Study of Bureaucracy
* PART V RECALIBRATING POLITICS, RESPONSIVENESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN
AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
* 22: George A. Krause: Legislative Delegation of Authority to
Bureaucratic Agencies
* 23: Robert F. Durant and William G. Resh: 'Presidentializing' the
Bureaucracy
* 24: Jerry L. Mashaw: Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Judicial Review
* 25: Cornelius Kerwin, Scott Furlong, and William West: Interest
Groups, Rulemaking, and American Bureaucracy
* 26: Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, and Ashley E. Jochim:
Policymaking, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Overhead Democracy
* 27: Jonathan Bendor and Thomas H. Hammond: Choice-Theoretic
Approaches to Bureaucratic Structure
* PART VI REVITALIZING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, RESOURCE CAPACITY, AND
ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
* 28: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?
* 29: Norma M. Riccucci: Revitalizing Human Resources Management
* 30: Lael R. Keiser: Representative Bureaucracy
* Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management
* 32: Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour: The Prospects for Revitalizing
Ethics in a New Governance Era
* 33: Gary J. Miller and Andrew B. Whitford: Experimental Methods,
Agency Incentives, and the Study of Bureaucratic Behavior
* Index