TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durant,Robert F
TI  - Oxford handbook of American bureaucracy 
T2  - The Oxford handbooks of American politics
SN  - 9780199650538
AV  - JK681 .O94 2010
U1  - 352.630973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil service
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction; A heritage made our own; Robert F. Durant --; Reconceptualizing the history of American bureaucracy?; Historical institutionalism, political development, and the study of American bureaucracy; David Brian Robertson; The "first new federalism" and the development of the administrative state, 1883-1929; Kimberley Johnson; A gendered legacy; the progressive reform era revisited; Hindy Lauer Schachter; Reevaluating executive-centered public administrative theory; David H. Rosenbloom; Metaphors and the development of American bureaucracy; Jonathan G.S. Koppell; Herbert Hoover's revenge; politics, policy, and administrative reform movements; Robert F. Durant --; Rethinking rationality in American bureaucracy?; Agency theory and the bureaucracy; B. Dan Wood; Agency design and evolution; Amy B. Zegart; Goal ambiguity and the study of American bureaucracy; Hal G. Rainey; Street-level bureaucracy theory; Steven Maynard-Moody and Shannon Portillo; The promises and paradoxes of performance-based bureaucracy; Donald P. Moynihan; Leading through cultural change; Anne M. Khademian; Postmodernism, bureaucracy, and democracy; Ralph P. Hummel and Camilla Stivers --; Redrawing the boundaries of American bureaucracy?; Myths, markets, and the "visible hand" of American Bureaucracy; H. George Frederickson and Edmund C. Stazyk; Networking in the shadow of bureaucracy; Michael McGuire and Robert Agranoff; The promises, performance, and pitfalls of government contracting; Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek; Reluctant partners; nonprofit collaboration, social entrepreneurship, and leveraged volunteerism; Wolfgang Bielefeld, James L. Perry, and Ann Marie Thomson; Policy tools, mandates, and intergovernmental relations; Beryl A. Radin and Paul Posner; Promises, perils, and performance of netcentric bureaucracy; Sharon L. Caudle; Multilevel methods in the study of bureaucracy; Carolyn J. Heinrich and Carolyn J. Hill --; Recalibrating politics, responsiveness, and accountability in American bureaucracy?; Legislative delegation of authority to bureaucratic agencies; George A. Krause; "Presidentializing" the bureaucracy; Robert F. Durant and William G. Resh; Bureaucracy, democracy, and judicial review; Jerry L. Mashaw; Interest groups, rulemaking, and American bureaucracy; Cornelius Kerwin, Scott Furlong, and William West; Policymaking, bureaucratic discretion, and overhead democracy; Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, and Ashley E. Jochim; Choice-theoretic approaches to bureaucratic structure; Jonathan Bendor and Thomas H. Hammond --; Revitalizing the constitutional, resource capacity, and ethical foundations of American bureaucracy?; Has governance eclipsed government?; Laurence E. Lynn, Jr; Revitalizing human resources management; Norma M. Riccucci; Representative bureaucracy; Lael R. Keiser; Innovations in budgeting and financial management; Daniel R. Mullins and John L. Mikesell; The prospects for revitalizing ethics in a new governance era; Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour; Experimental methods, agency incentives, and the study of bureaucratic behavior; Gary J. Miller and Andrew B. Whitford
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