bureaucracy OR bureaucracies - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Generating Creativity and Innovation in Large Bureaucracies

Book by Robert Lawrence Kuhn; Quorum Books, 1993

Subjects:

Bureaucracy, Creative Ability In Business, Organizational Change--Management, Technological Innovations--Management

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This volume draws together major management theoreticians who examine the forces and factors that enhance or inhibit creative and innovative activities in large organizations in the private and public sectors. Examples are drawn from the United States and Japan as well as Eastern Europe and China.
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Comparing Public Bureaucracies: Problems of Theory and Method

Book by B. Guy Peters; University of Alabama Press, 1988

Subjects:

Bureaucracy, Comparative Government, Public Administration

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...Comparing public bureaucracies. Bibliography...index. 1. Bureaucracy. 2. Public...Comparing Public Bureaucracies 1 The...in Public Bureaucracy and the...of public bureaucracy have been...studying bureaucracies and political...
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Holding Government Bureaucracies Accountable

Book by Bernard Rosen; Praeger, 1998

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--United States, Judicial Review Of Administrative Acts--United States, Legislative Oversight--United States

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This updated and revised third edition of Rosen's acclaimed text incorporates the Chief Financial Officer Act of 1990, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, and the Government Management Reform Act of 1994. These three laws, with the Clinton administration's National Performance ...
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This updated and revised third edition of Rosen's acclaimed text incorporates the Chief Financial Officer Act of 1990, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, and the Government Management Reform Act of 1994. These three laws, with the Clinton administration's National Performance Review, initiated in 1993, could substantially improve the performance and accountability of the federal bureaucracy.
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The Politics of Bureaucracy

Book by B. Guy Peters; Routledge, 2001

Subjects:

Bureaucracy, Comparative Government, Public Administration

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Routledge is proud to publish the fifth edition of this comprehensive, comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world. Written by a leading authority in the field, it offers an extensive, well documented, comparative analysis ...
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Routledge is proud to publish the fifth edition of this comprehensive, comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world. Written by a leading authority in the field, it offers an extensive, well documented, comparative analysis stressing the effects of politics and organised interests on bureaucracy. New to the fifth edition: * a new chapter on administrative reform * more material on administration in developing countries * more coverage of the European Union and more discussion of international bureaucracies * revision and up-dating to take into account the wealth of new literature that has emerged in recent years.
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The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency

Book by Sally Coleman Selden; M. E. Sharpe, 1998

Subjects:

Bureaucracy, Democracy, United States--Farmers Home Administration

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...representative bureaucracy: diversity and...Selden. p. cm.-- Bureaucracies, public administration...day-to-day operation of bureaucracies. The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy should be read...representative bureaucracy, but organizational...and educational bureaucracies. To generalize...

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Building Innovative Bureaucracies: Change, Structure, and the Science of Ideas; A New Series on Innovation in Bureaucracy Lays Down a Foundation and Explores the Mechanics of Innovating in the Public Sector-Maturing from an Organization That Is Change Averse, to Change Cognizant, to Change Capable, and Finally to Change Centric

Journal article by Mike Davis; The Public Manager, Vol. 32, 2003

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Management, Public sector--Innovations, United States--Domestic policy

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...Building Innovative Bureaucracies: Change, Structure...Innovation in Bureaucracy Lays Down a Foundation...innovation in bureaucracy just does not...innovation in bureaucracies seems to be even...innovation that bureaucracy presents is a...Services "Innovative Bureaucracies" series, we have...
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Major Players: Bureaucracies in American Government

Journal article by Herbert Kaufman; Public Administration Review, Vol. 61, 2001

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Evaluation, Public administration--Political aspects

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...complaints about bureaucracy will not cease...circumstances, bureaucracies exhibit characteristics...the growing bureaucracies. As the bureaucracy grew, bringing...with public bureaucracies were entirely...complaints about bureaucracy would presumably...
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How Managed Care Is Reinventing Medicaid and Other Public Health-Care Bureaucracies

Journal article by John H. Portz, Matthew Reidy, David A. Rochefort; Public Administration Review, Vol. 59, 1999

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Management, Health care reform--Evaluation, Managed care plans (Medical care)--Management, Medicaid--Management

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...Public Health-Care Bureaucracies. by John...on the public bureaucracy. In fact, managed...public health care bureaucracy. As a reform...public health care bureaucracies down the path...to the federal bureaucracy as well. Redefining...public health care bureaucracies to rethink their...
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From Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracies: How Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control (1)

Journal article by Mark Bovens, Stavros Zouridis; Public Administration Review, Vol. 62, 2002

Subjects:

Administrative agencies--Powers and duties, Bureaucracy--Analysis, Communication in politics--Analysis, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction

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...street-level bureaucracies. The street-level bureaucracy had become...screen-level bureaucracies is gradually...system-level bureaucracy. The accent...screen-level bureaucracies, the characteristics...system-level bureaucracy are summarized...
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Salience, Complexity, and the Legislative Direction of Regulatory Bureaucracies

Journal article by Evan J. Ringquist, Jeff Worsham, Marc Allen Eisner; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 13, 2003

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Research, Public administration--Technique

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...legislative direction of regulatory bureaucracies. by Evan J. Ringquist...reinvigorating the study of bureaucracy. From a theoretical perspective...congressional efforts to control the bureaucracy, this is only a beginning...political control of regulatory bureaucracies, we see nothing unique about...

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Bureaucracies and Learning Organizations

Magazine article by Phillip C. Schlechty; School Administrator, Vol. 63, October 2006

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Forecasts and trends, Bureaucracy--Usage, Public schools--Management, School administration--Forecasts and trends, School management and organization--Forecasts and trends

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...efforts have to do with strengthening the systems upon which bureaucracies depend. As a result, power and authority have shifted from...learning organizations and less about the practices that support bureaucracy. Local control is, after all, at the heart of the learning...
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Small Towns, Big Government: Local Bureaucracies Can Be Tyrannical Too

Magazine article by Richard Miniter; The American Enterprise, Vol. 8, November 1997

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Political aspects, Local government--Evaluation, Municipal government--Evaluation

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Small towns, big government: local bureaucracies can be tyrannical too. by Richard Miniter...government were to disappear tomorrow, state and local bureaucracies would lumber on. Most states allow local authorities to...
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Japan's Economy: Lazarus or Rip Van Winkle? Japan's Decade-Old Recession, Perpetuated by the Country's Huge Bureaucracy, Threatens the World Economy, but There Are Signs of Hope on the Horizon

Magazine article by Balbina Hwang; World and I, Vol. 17, January 2002

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Economic aspects, Economic policy--Planning, Japan--Economic aspects, Koizumi, Junichiro--Political activity, Recessions--Prevention

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...Perpetuated by the Countrys Huge Bureaucracy, Threatens the World Economy...the Japanese economy: the bureaucracies that pose the greatest impediment...reason for targeting the bureaucracies as an initial step toward...would have sovereignty; the bureaucracies remained dominant, however...
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How to Cut the Bureaucracy in Half; Understanding Slot Syndrome, Headless Nails, Meeting Mania, and Other Government Gimmicks

Magazine article by Scott Shuger, Daniel Kaufman; Washington Monthly, Vol. 22, June 1990

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Finance, Civil service--Labor productivity, Defense spending--Finance, Expenditures, Public--Control, Government spending policy--Analysis, Political corruption--Economic aspects

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...Heres the punchline: When a bureaucracy is screwed up, it does not...world ebbs and flows while bureaucracies stay put, the slot syndrome...the reverse logic of bad bureaucracy in all its glory. Too many...an interest in government bureaucracy is slightly quaint, just...
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Reducing Government Bureaucracy

Magazine article by Jeffrey H. Epstein; The Futurist, Vol. 32, January 1998

Subjects:

Bureaucracy--Analysis, Public administration--Technique

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Reducing government bureaucracy by Jeffrey H. Epstein...Peter Plastrik, authors of Banishing Bureaucracy, believe that reforming civil servants...frustration and exasperation with bureaucracy. These programs are still experimental...

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Consultant Attacks 'Bloated Health Bureaucracy'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 4, 2006

Subjects:

Medical supplies wholesalers, Wales. National Assembly--Powers and duties

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Consultant Attacks Bloated Health Bureaucracy. Byline: By MADELEINE BRINDLEY...created one of the most bloated health bureaucracies in Europe for a population of three...care runs up against the dead hand of bureaucracy and a managerialist culture unwilling...
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Reforming Government Bureaucracy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 20, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...management "guideline" that of all the problems that exist in a bureaucracy, about 85 percent are caused by management and 15 percent...suggested in earlier congressional action - elimination of these bureaucracies entirely. Any significant reform in government must start...
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Warm Charity, Not Cold Bureaucracy

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 17, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...seriously (although not completely). Whatever the government does directly and by itself necessarily entails a bureaucracy. And bureaucracies tend to grow big and fat out of all proportion to the positive results they can bring about. In short, they...
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New Trustees Aren't Educators: Board Sought Managers Who Could Deal with Bureaucracy

Newspaper article by John Mercurio, Susan Ferrechio; The Washington Times, November 16, 1996

Subjects:

Becton, Julius W., Jr.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...arent educators: Board sought managers who could deal with bureaucracy by John Mercurio , Susan Ferrechio Julius...constituency. The trustees said their ability to manage complex bureaucracies and hold employees accountable will help them save a school...
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Lean and Mean Bureaucracy

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 22, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Lean and Mean Bureaucracy. Byline: GENALYN D. KABILING...effectively streamline operations in the bureaucracy and generate savings for salary upgrades...revealed the government plan to trim the bureaucracy by abolishing at least 34 offices...

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Bureaucracy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and economy has made the bureaucracy central to the life of the...decisions. Administrative bureaucracies in private organizations...criticism of unresponsive bureaucracies in education, health care...Vitality: The Conflict with Bureaucracy (1959); R. Bendix, M. Weber...
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Chinese Dynasties

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...First historic dynasty. Complex agricultural society with a bureaucracy and defined social classes. Well-developed writing, first...Neo-Confucianism attains supremacy over Taoism and Buddhism; central bureaucracy reestablished. Widespread cultivation of tea and cotton...
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Stein, Karl, Freiherr Vom Und Zum

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...VOM UND ZUM karl fri her f m oont tsoom shtin, 1757 1831, Prussian statesman and reformer. Rising through the Prussian bureaucracy, he became minister of commerce (1804 7) but was dismissed by King Frederick William III for his attempts to increase the...
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Sociology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sociology is concerned with all group activities economic, social, political, and religious. Sociologists study such areas as bureaucracy, community, deviant behavior, family, public opinion, social change, social mobility, social stratification, and such specific...
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Wang Mang

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...his reforms were aimed essentially at strengthening the bureaucracy and solving the current financial crisis. To refill the imperial...his capital, Changan (Xian), was sacked; his centralized bureaucracy was destroyed at the same time. A battle for the throne continued...

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