Agency Merger and Bureaucratic Redesign (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

By Karen M. Hult

Book Overview

Since the expansion of public programs in the 1960s, charges of bureaucratic inefficiency, unresponsiveness, and red tape have been rampant. The response has often been extensive reorganization in an effort to change the source of control, carry out specific missions, and to achieve greater inter-agency cooperation. Karen M. Hult examines why these restructurings often fail, through three case studies: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Design (HUD); the Minnesota Department of Energy, Planning, and Development; and the Minneapolis Community Development Agency. Hult's study assesses the usefulness of mergers and reorganizations as a policy tool, and offers a valuable contribution to the study of public management and organization design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082293549X
• ISBN13: 9780822935490
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"