Format:
1 Online-Ressource (233 p)
ISBN:
9780765609601
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Theoretical Underpinnings: Why Does the Social Background of Public Administrators Matter? -- Bureaucracy -- Representative Bureaucracy -- Democracy and the Public Service -- Representative Bureaucracy -- Chapter 2. Public Personnel Policy and Social Representation: How Do Policies for Recruitment, Selection, Promotion, Pay, and Retention Affect Representative Bureaucracy? -- To Look Like America -- Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration
Content:
The Curious Case of Women in State and Local Government -- Black Employment in Municipal Jobs: The Impact of Black Political Power -- Chapter 3. Social Representation and Public Administrators' Worldviews: What Is the Linkage Between Social Background and Civil Servants' Policy Preferences? -- Bureaucracy and Social Change -- Representative Bureaucracy and Policy Preferences: A Study in the Attitudes of Federal Executives -- Passive and Active Representation in the Federal Service: A Comparison of Blacks and Whites -- Policy Preferences on Workplace Reform
Content:
Chapter 4. Social Background, Life Experience, and Policy Advocacy: Why Do Civil Servants Act on Policy Preferences Derived from Their Social Backgrounds and Life Experiences? -- Minority Groups in Public Bureaucracies: Are Passive and Active Representation Linked? -- The Impact of Representative Bureaucracies: Educational Systems and Public Policies -- Bureaucracy as a Representative Institution: Toward a Reconciliation of Bureaucratic Government and Democratic Theory -- Progress Toward Achieving a Representative Federal Bureaucracy: The Impact of Supervisors and Their Beliefs
Content:
Chapter 5. "Reinventing Government" and Representative Bureaucracy: The Impacts of Employee Empowerment, Outsourcing, and Entrepreneurship -- Empowering Employees to Get Results -- A Demand-Side Perspective on the Importance of Representative Bureaucracy -- Faith Based Furor -- Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: On the Horns of a Dilemma -- The Limits of Privatism -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781134898824
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780765609601
Additional Edition:
Print version Dolan, Julie Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies : Taylor and Francis,c2016 ISBN 9780765609601
Language:
English
Keywords:
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