Bureaucracy and Self-Government - Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics

Informationen zum Autor Brian J. Cook is a professor of government and director of the Master of Public Administration Program at Clark University. He is the author of Bureaucratic Politics and Regulatory Reform: The EPA and Emission Trading and Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext The second edition includes reviews of Jeffersonian impacts on administrative theory and practice and Jacksonian developments in national administrative structures and functions, a look at the administrative theorizing that presaged progressive reforms in civil service, and insight into the confounding complexities that characterize public thinking about administration in a postmodern political order. Zusammenfassung Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics! government! and public administration! the author offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about "big government."

Product details

• Authors: Brian J Cook, Brian J. Cook, Brian J. (Professor Emeritus Cook
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2015
• EAN: 9781421415529
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1552-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Interpreting American Politics; Interpreting American Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education