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Bureaucracy and Democracy
Accountability and Performance
Fourth Edition
- Steven J. Balla - George Washington University, USA
- William T. Gormley, Jr.
July 2017 | 360 pages | CQ Press
Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role of bureaucratic values.
Chapter 1: Bureaucracies as Policymaking Organizations
Chapter 2: Bureaucratic Reasoning
Chapter 3: The Bureaucracy’s Bosses
Chapter 4: The Bureaucracy’s Clients
Chapter 5: Bureaucratic Networks
Chapter 6: The Politics of Disaster Management
Chapter 7: Why Are Some Bureaucracies Better Than Others?
This book looks good for senior-level students who study bureaucracy in depth.
School Of Public Affairs, Pennsylvania State University
November 24, 2020
