Handbook of Bureaucracy

Abstract

Part 1 Historical Perspectives on Bureaucracy: Public Administration, Administrative Thought and the Emergence of the Nation State Administration of the Spanish Empire In the Americas. Part 2 Theoretical/Conceptual Perspectives on Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics: Excessive Bureaucratization - The J-Curve Theory of Bureaucracy and Max Weber Through the Looking Glass Max Weber - Victim of Ethnocentric Mishandling, or How Weber Became a Management Consultant Getung at the Essence of the Administrative State The Bureaucracy-Democracy Conundrum - A Contemporary Inquiry into the Labyrinth. Part 3 Bureaucracy, Politics, and Society: Government Reorganization - A Theoretical Analysis Organizational Strategy for Coping with External Environments - Reducing Work-Loads as One Approach Bureaucracy and the Environmental Crisis - A Comparative Perspective Bureaucracy and Modernization The Thatcher Agenda, the Civil Science, and Total Etriciency. Part 4 Bureaucracy, Public Policy, and Administration/Management: Bureaucracy in International Organizations - Building Capacity and Credibility in a Newly Interdependent World Privatization and Debureaucratization - A Comparative Analysis of Bureaucratic Alternatives Managing Human and Natural Disasters In Developing Nations - The Multidimensional Bureaucratic Role Organizational Conflict. Part 5 Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics in North/Central/Latin America: The Emergence of the American Administrative State - The Intellectual Origins Three Efforts at Managing Crises from FDR's White House Supreme Court Articulation of the Politics/Administration Dichotomy Bureaucracy and Justice - An Overview of Criminal Justice In the United States Termination and Bureaucracy - Ending Government Programmes, Policies and Organizations. Part 6 Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics in Europe and Australia: Genesis of Public Administration and its Early Development In Australia, 1788-1856 Political and Managerial Reform in a Small State - The Relevance of the 1980s. Part 7 Bureaucracy and Politics In Asia, Africa and the Middle/Near East: Public Bureaucracy In Korea A Subordinate Bureaucracy - The Philippine Civil Service to 1992 Bureaucracy and Rural Development In Bangladesh Bureaucracy in the Ottoman-Turkish Polity.