Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 216 pages)
ISBN:
9780857936011
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0857936018
Content:
Attempting to understand the politics of representation entails the close examination of the procedural, political, and conflicting nature of representation in public organizations. Shedding light on the study of public administration, this book provides a profound understanding of the causes, facets, and consequences of the politics of representation in the public sector. Using a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, and recognizing the inherently political nature of public bureaucracies, expert contributors extend our understanding of this salient topic. Three areas are discussed, catalysing debate about representation in the public sector: The study of representative bureaucracy is explored, moving away from traditional viewpoints concerning passive and active representation, making room to capture additional 'channels for the expression' of interests; Insight into the institutionalization and freezing of different types of representation is presented, drawing attention to factors that will help explain this variation among administrative systems in the future; Lessons for theorizing public organizations are elaborated upon, to include how public sector bureaucracies play multiple and competing roles. Providing comprehensive analysis of representation in public organizations, Politics of Representative Bureaucracy will benefit scholars and practitioners alike, from comparative public administration and management, government, public policy, and diversity studies.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Delivering public services in multiethnic societies -- the challenge of representativeness / B. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić -- 2. The comparative study of representative bureaucracy -- an analytical framework / B. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić -- 3. The "performance claim" of representative bureaucracy -- does organization matter? / Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić -- 4. Reconsidering political and bureaucratic representation in modern government / Patrick von Maravić and B. Guy Peters -- 5. Representative bureaucracy in a cross-national context : politics, identity, structure and discretion / Kenneth J. Meier and Tabitha S.M. Morton -- 6. Political patronage, machine politics and ethnic representativeness in the public sector / B. Guy Peters -- 7. Nonprofit advocacy for immigrant rights in San Francisco : creating a procedurally and substantively democratic city bureaucracy / Els de Graauw -- 8. Migration and urban governance -- challenges for democratic legitimacy? / Tassilo Herrschel -- 9. Civic leadership, and local politics in multi-cultural cities / Robin Hambleton -- 10. From plutocracy to diversity : the (de- )construction of representative bureaucracy theory / Bas van Gool.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857936004
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780857936004
Language:
English
Keywords:
Repräsentative Demokratie
;
Bürokratie
Author information:
Maravić, Patrick von 1976-
Author information:
Schröter, Eckhard 1938-
Author information:
Peters, B. Guy 1944-
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