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B. Guy Peters’ comprehensive exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies is newly available in a fully revised and updated fifth edition. Written by a leading authority in the field it offers an extensive, well-documented, comparative analysis stressing the effects of politics and organized interests on bureaucracy. It continues to provide students of public administration with an excellent insight into bureaucracies of nations around the world.
New to the fifth edition:
• A chapter on administrative reform
• More material on administration in developing countries
• More coverage of the European Union countries and more discussion of
international bureaucracies
• Extensive revision and updating to take into account the wealth of new literature
that has emerged in recent years.
Content:-
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES
1: The persistence, growth and change of government and administration
The modern public sector
Public spending
The growth of government
Entitlements
Fiscal pressures
The political process
Decline of late capitalism
The public bureaucracy
Summary
The growth of administration
The quantitative growth of public concerns
The qualitative growth of public concerns
Institutional weaknesses
The nature of bureaucratic institutions
Countertrends in government growth
Summary
Notes
2: Political culture and public administration
Administrative culture
General societal culture
Impersonal rules and organizations
Political culture and administration
Dimensions of political culture
Culture and the internal management of organizations
Culture and authority
Culture and motivation
Summary
Notes
3: The recruitment of public administrators
Merit versus patronage
Representative bureaucracy
Caveats
Public versus private employment
Methods of recruitment
Education and training
Job placement
Career distinctiveness
Incentives and motivation
Pay in the public sector
Methods of recruitment
Education
Ethnic representativeness
Sexual equality
Summary
Notes
4: Problems of administrative structure
Germany
The United Kingdom
France
Sweden
The United States
The structure of administration
Organization by area served
Organization by process
Organization by clientele
Organization by purpose
Summary
Internal organization
Variations in internal organization
Reorganization
Summary
Notes
5: Politics and public administration
Bureaucracy and pressure groups
Legitimate interactions
Networks and communities
Other patterns of legitimate interaction
Clientela relationships
Parantela relationships
Illegitimate group processes
Social movements and the bureaucracy
Bureaucracy and political parties
Summary
Notes
6: The politics of bureaucracy
Bureaucratic government
Policy intentions: the agency ideology
The availability of “not unworkable” means
Competition among agencies
The incumbency of positions
The possession of managerial skills
A high priority given to implementation of policy
Summary
Strategies in bureaucratic politics
The resources of bureaucracy
The resources of political institutions
Bureaucratic ploys
Politicians’ ploys
Summary
Notes
7: Paying for government: the budgetary process
Basic questions
Macro-allocation
Micro-allocation
Competing bureaucracies
The importance of resources
Incrementalism in the budgetary process
The nature of incrementalism
Critiques of incrementalism
Pressures toward incrementalism
Politics and incrementalism
Alternatives to incrementalism
Program budgeting
Zero-Base Budgeting
Management by Objectives
The Public Expenditure Survey
Bulk budgeting
Reactions to stress
Cash limits
Envelope budgeting
Structural budget margin
Efficiency
Outside evaluations
The return to rationality?
General problems of budgeting
Intergovernmental budget control
Annual budgets
Capital budgeting
Coordination of taxation and expenditures
Off-budget operations
Summary
Notes
8: The politics of administrative accountability
Basic concepts
Accountability
Ethics and Dimensions of responsibility
Instruments of accountability
Organizational methods
The market and other external controls
Group and public pressures
Political methods of control
Normative restraints
The limits of control
The professions
Autonomous and semi-autonomous agencies
Contracts and third-party government
Unions
Political structure
Culture
Non-administration
Summary
Notes
9: Administrative reform
Ideas for reform
The market
Participation
Deregulation
Flexible government
Summary
Specific reforms
Agencies and deconcentration
Personnel management
Consumerizing government
Accountability
The politics of administrative reform
Why reform?
Conclusion
Notes
10: Public administration in the twenty-first century
Scarcity and public administration
Increasing challenges to government and administration
Complexity in administration
Managing in the new millennium
Summary
Notes
INDEX
Author Details
B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government and chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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