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...

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