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Informationen zum Autor Robert F. Durant has authored or co-authored national award-winning articles and books in the fields of Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Management, the Presidency, and Environmental and Natural Resources Policy. He has received the Charles H. Levine Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Administration research, teaching, and service. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where is also Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy. Klappentext One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets! the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations! and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines! fields! and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges! choices! and opportunities this dilemma poses for governance! democratic constitutionalism! and theory building. This literature is vast! affords multiple and conflicting perspectives! is methodologically diverse! and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends! critically takes stock of the state of knowledge! and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope! methodological diversity! scholarly viewpoint! and substantive integration! this volume is invaluable for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century! and where leading scholars think it should go in the future. Zusammenfassung With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the fields of public administration, public management, and public policy The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy is a key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures List of Tables About the Contributors Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1: Robert F. Durant: A Heritage Made Our Own PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? 2: David Brian Robertson: Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy 3: Kimberley Johnson: The 'First New Federalism' and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929 4: Hindy Lauer Schachter: A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform Era Revisited 5: David H. Rosenbloom: Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public Administrative Theory 6: Jonathan Koppell: Metaphors and the Development of American Bureaucracy 7: Robert F. Durant: Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and Administrative Reform Movements PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? 8: B. Dan Wood: Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy 9: Amy B. Zegart: Agency Design and Evolution 10: Hal G. Rainey: Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American Bureaucracy 11: Steven Maynard-Moody and Shannon Portillo: Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory 12: Donald P. Moynihan: The Promises and Paradoxes of Performance-Based Bureaucracy 13: Anne M. Khademian: Leading Through Cultural Change 14: Ralph P. Hummel and Camilla Stivers: Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? 15: H. George Frederickson and Edmund C. Stazyk: Myths, Markets, and the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy 16: Michael McGuire and Robert Agranoff: Networking in the Shadow of Bureaucracy 17: Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek: The P...
