Policy bureaucracy : government with a cast of thousands / Edward C. Page and Bill Jenkins.
"Policy Bureaucracy examines what policy bureaucrats do and how they do it, the cues officials use to develop policy and how political and administrative leaders influence their work. The instructions to which these largely middle-ranking officials work - whether coming from ministers or top ci...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "Policy Bureaucracy examines what policy bureaucrats do and how they do it, the cues officials use to develop policy and how political and administrative leaders influence their work. The instructions to which these largely middle-ranking officials work - whether coming from ministers or top civil servants - are often very broad and leave much to personal interpretation. The analytical approach adopted in the book is derived from Alvin Gouldner's Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy and his elaboration of Max Weber's notion that hierarchy and expertise place a fundamental tension at the heart of modern bureaucracies. In the UK this tension is handled by combining 'invited authority' with 'improvised expertise'. The book also explores other models of handling this tension in political systems in Europe and the USA."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 214 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191515612 0191700118 1280755946 1423786858 9780191515613 9780191700118 9781280755941 9781423786856 |