Bureaucracy and democracy : the case for more bureaucracy and less democracy
By: Meier, Kenneth J
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ArticlePublisher: malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, may/june 1997Public administration review: PAR 57, 3, p. 193-200Abstract: In "democracy and bureaucracy" meier argues that the bureaucrecy problem in the united states is, in reality, a governance problem. Framed in this way, he argues the key problems are failures of electoral institutions rather than failures of bureaucracy. As a result, public administration needs to broaden its focus and include the study of electoral institutions as well as the study of bureaucracy. Effective governance is possible only if students of public administration return to their reformist roots and address both bureaucratic and electoral institutions. As a starting point in such a debate, meier propose a series of reforms for U.S. political institutions.
In "democracy and bureaucracy" meier argues that the bureaucrecy problem in the united states is, in reality, a governance problem. Framed in this way, he argues the key problems are failures of electoral institutions rather than failures of bureaucracy. As a result, public administration needs to broaden its focus and include the study of electoral institutions as well as the study of bureaucracy. Effective governance is possible only if students of public administration return to their reformist roots and address both bureaucratic and electoral institutions. As a starting point in such a debate, meier propose a series of reforms for U.S. political institutions.
Public administration review PAR
May/June 1997 Volume 57 Number 3
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