Bureaucratic Democracy: The Search for Democracy and Efficiency in American Government

by Douglas Yates

Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government.

Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674086120
• ISBN13: 9780674086128
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"