The Oxford handbook of American bureaucracy
By: edited by Robert F. Durant
Series: The Oxford handbooks of American politics; Oxford handbooks of American politics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780199238958
Subjects: Bureaucracy; History; Civil service
Description: 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 sub-fields 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.

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