UID:
edocfu_9959236004102883
Format:
1 online resource (233 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-89889-4
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1-315-54147-5
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1-134-89882-7
Note:
First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.
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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
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The Curious Case of Women in State and Local GovernmentBlack 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
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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
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Chapter 5. "Reinventing Government" and Representative Bureaucracy: The Impacts of Employee Empowerment, Outsourcing, and EntrepreneurshipEmpowering 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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7656-0961-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7656-0960-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315541471
