The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality
The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality

Author: Gregory A. Huber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1139464779

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Are political understandings of bureaucracy incompatible with Weberian features of administrative neutrality? In examining the question of whether interest groups and elected officials are able to influence how government agencies implement the law, this book identifies the political origins of bureaucratic neutrality. In bridging the traditional gap between questions of internal management (public administration) and external politics (political science), Huber argues that 'strategic neutrality' allows bureaucratic leaders to both manage their subordinates and sustain political support. By analyzing the OSH Act of 1970, Huber demonstrates the political origins and benefits of administrative neutrality, and contrasts it with apolitical and unconstrained administrative implementation. Historical analysis, interviews with field-level bureaucrats and their supervisors, and quantitative analysis provide a rich understanding of the twin difficulties agency leaders face as political actors and personnel managers.

Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality
Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality

Author: Haile K. Asmerom

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1349248088

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The book focuses on the mutual implications of bureaucratic neutrality and democracy from the perspective of societies formerly under authoritarian regimes. It explores the impact of democratization on bureaucratic neutrality as well as the implications of neutral bureaucracies for democracy. Theoretical and conceptual dimensions of the subject are spelled out, and specialists discuss case studies from Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, therefore compounding a broad panel of the challenges and opportunities confronting the democratization process throughout the world.

Trump and the Bureaucrats
Trump and the Bureaucrats

Author: Stuart Shapiro

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-25

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 303122079X

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This volume discusses the long term impacts of the Trump presidency on the federal bureaucracy. Drawing on the longstanding academic literature on neutral competence and interviews with the bureaucrats themselves, this book adds insight to the academic question of the role of bureaucrats in a democratic system after a four-year period in which their role has been questioned and threatened as never before. Focusing on the elite agencies of the Office of Management and Budget, the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, as well as the Economic Research Service at the Department of Agriculture, the chapters evaluate individual experiences of members of each agency during the Trump presidency through the lens of the growing tension between politics and administration. Enlightening the role that bureaucrats play in American democracy in an era when polarization is on the rise and disputes over the role of the civil service are growing, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students in public policy, political science, and public administration as well as policymakers and members of the US federal government workforce.

The New Case for Bureaucracy
The New Case for Bureaucracy

Author: Charles T. Goodsell

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1483311554

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Charles Goodsell has long taken the position that U.S. bureaucracy is neither a generalized failure nor sinkhole of waste as mythologized by anti-government ideologues. Rather, it is one of the most effective and innovate sets of administrative institutions of any government in the world today. Indispensable to our democracy, it keeps government reliable and dependable to the citizens it serves. However, The New Case for Bureaucracy goes beyond empirically verifying its quality. Now an extended essay, written in a conversational tone, Goodsell expects readers to form their own judgments. At a time when Congress is locked in partisan and factional deadlock, he argues for the increased importance of bureaucrats and discusses how federal agencies must battle to keep alive in terms of resources and be strong enough to retain the integrity of their missions.

The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the US Government

Author: Samuel Workman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-16

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1316299198

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This book develops a new theoretical perspective on bureaucratic influence and congressional agenda setting based on limited attention and government information processing. Using a comprehensive new data set on regulatory policymaking across the entire federal bureaucracy, Samuel Workman develops the theory of the dual dynamics of congressional agenda setting and bureaucratic problem solving as a way to understand how the US government generates information about, and addresses, important policy problems. Key to the perspective is a communications framework for understanding the nature of information and signaling between the bureaucracy and Congress concerning the nature of policy problems. Workman finds that congressional influence is innate to the process of issue shuffling, issue bundling, and the fostering of bureaucratic competition. In turn, bureaucracy influences the congressional agenda through problem monitoring, problem definition, and providing information that serves as important feedback in the development of an agenda.

The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance
The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance

Author: Anthony Michael Bertelli

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-26

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1107393515

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In The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, Anthony Michael Bertelli introduces core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. Though recent literature that mathematically models relationships between politicians and public managers provides insight into contemporary public administration, the technical way these works present information limits their appeal. This book helps readers understand public-sector governance arrangements and the implications these arrangements have for public management practice and policy outcomes by presenting information in a non-technical way.

Battleground: Government and Politics [2 volumes]
Battleground: Government and Politics [2 volumes]

Author: Lori A. Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-09-23

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0313343144

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Through a detailed exploration of the viewpoints involved, this balanced and incisive work promotes understanding of the most divisive issues in American government today. Government and politics is an area in which there are no "right" answers, but much room for debate. Battleground: Government and Politics allows students and general readers alike to consider key political debates from all sides and to arrive at their own considered convictions, based on a firm understanding of the issues and points of view involved. This two-volume work explores dozens of the most contentious issues in contemporary life, issues that impact how our government is run today and how it will be run in the future. Each topic is examined in a balanced way, providing not only an overview of the issues involved, but an objective assessment of the stance of all sides. Readers can use these entries as thorough and solid summaries of the most contentious controversies in contemporary society, or as starting points for more in-depth research into the debates.

The Need to Help
The Need to Help

Author: Liisa H. Malkki

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0822375362

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In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness—the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly who knit "trauma teddies" and "aid bunnies" for "needy children," the need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial, Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work. She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic, whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.

Harvard Law Review: Volume 129, Number 2 - December 2015
Harvard Law Review: Volume 129, Number 2 - December 2015

Author: Harvard Law Review

Publisher: Quid Pro Books

Published: 2015-12-10

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1610278127

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The December 2015 issue, Number 2, features these contents: • Article, "Intra-Agency Coordination," by Jennifer Nou • Book Review, "Body Banking from the Bench to the Bedside," by Natalie Ram • Note, "'A Prison Is a Prison Is a Prison': Mandatory Immigration Detention and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel" • Note, "Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law" The issue also includes In Memoriam essays honoring the legacy of Professor Daniel J. Meltzer, with contributions by Judge David J. Barron, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Vicki C. Jackson, Robert S. Taylor, Justice Elena Kagan, David F. Levi, Martha Minow, and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on retroactive application of Dodd-Frank, whether the first-to-file rule of the False Claims Act is jurisdictional, ancillary jurisdiction to expunge a criminal conviction, and First Amendment issues raised by a court-ordered apology. Student comments on Recent Legislation discuss state laws prohibiting local units from creating protected classes, and state laws prohibiting local units from regulating fracking. Further, a student comment analyzes a Recent Adjudication in the EEOC defining discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation as protected sexual discrimination. Finally, the issue includes several comments on Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs, legible tables, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting. The Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. It comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2500 pages per volume. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This is the second issue of academic year 2015-2016.