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."

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Brian J Cook, Brian J. Cook, Brian J. (Professor Emeritus Cook
• Edition: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 09.02.2015
• EAN: 9781421415529
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1552-9
• Pages: 296
• Thèmes: Interpreting American Politics; Interpreting American Politics
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political science & theory, Public Administration, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory