Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies

by William T. Gormley Jr.

Book Overview

Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has emerged with a weaker, less autonomous bureaucracy. In a book that will interest not only public administration specialists but students...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069160648X
• ISBN13: 9780691606484
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"