Title: Making bureaucracies work /
Authors: Weiss, Carol H.; Barton, Allen H., 1924-2017
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Bureaucracy United States.; Administrative agencies United States; United States Politics and government.
Contents: 1. Efforts at bureaucratic reform: what have we learned? / Carol H. Weiss -- 2. A diagnosis of bureaucratic maladies / Allen H. Barton -- 3. Public opinion and public regard for the Federal government / Tom W. Smith and D. Garth Taylor with Nancy A. Mathiowetz -- 4. Changes in congressional oversight / Joel D. Aberbach -- 5. The courts as monitors of the bureaucracy / Donald L. Horowitz -- 6. Bureaucratic autonomy with the public interest / Francis E. Rourke -- 7. Decentralization of government agencies / Robert K. Yin -- 8. Solving problems of bureaucracy / David K. Cohen and Charles E. Lindblom -- 9. Think tanks: a new idea in government / Yehezhel Dror -- 10. Civil service reform as a remedy for bureaucratic ills / Alan K. Campbell -- 11. Competition among government bureaus / William A. Niskanen -- 12. The working bureaucrat and the nonworking bureaucracy / Stephan Michelson -- 13. Limiting governmental expenditure by constitutional amendment / Aaron Wildavsky -- 14. Government and the economy: collective inefficiencies / William C. Mitchell -- 15. Process and outcome in regulatory decision-making / Giandomenico Majone -- 16. Problems and procedures in the regulation of technological risk / Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Pollak -- 17. The political economy of American Bureaucracy / Susan S. Fainstein and Norman I. Fainstein.