Representative bureaucracy :  classic readings and continuing controversies 

 - Armonk :  M. E. Sharpe,  2003 
 - 218 p. 
<br/><br/> Chapter 1. Theoretical underpinnings: why does the social background of public administrators matter?  Bureaucracy - Max Weber  Representative Bureaucracy - J. Donald Kingsley  Democracy and public service - Frederick C. Mosher  Representative bureaucracy - Samuel Krislov  Chapter 2. Public personnel policy and social representation: how do policies for recruitment, selection, promotion, pay, and retention affect representative bureaucracy?  To look like America - Katherine C. Naff  Measuring bureaucratic representation and integration - Davd Nachmias and David H. Rosenbloom  The curious case of women in state and local government - Lee Sigelman  Black employment in municipal jobs: the impact of black political power - Peter K. Eisinger  Chapter 3. Social representation and public administrators' worldviews: what is the linkage between social background and civil servants' policy preferences  Bureaucracy and social change - Seymour Martin Lipset  Representative bureaucracy and policy preferences: a study in the attitudes of federal executives - Kenneth John Meier and Lloyd G. Nigro  Passive and active representation in the federal service: a comparison of blacks and whites - David H. Rosenbloom and Jeannette G. Featherstonhaugh  Policy preferences on workplace reform - Mary M. Hale and M. Frances Branch  Chapter 4. Social background, life experience, and policy advocacy: why do civil servants act on policy preferences derived from their social backgrounds and life experiences?  Minority groups in public bureaucracies: are passive and active representation linked? - Frank J. Thompson  The impact of representative bureaucracies: educational systems and public policies - Kenneth J. Meier and Joseph Stewart Jr  Bureaucracies as a representative institution: toward a reconciliation of bureaucratic government and democratic theory - Sally Coleman Selden, Jeffrey L. Brudney and J. Edward Kellough  Progress toward achieving a representative federal bureaucracy: the impact of supervisors and their beliefs - Katherine C. Naff  Chapter 5. "Reinventing government" and representative bureaucracy: the impacts of employee empowerment, outsourcing, and entrepreneurship  Empowering employees to get results - Al Gore  A demand-side perspectives on the importance of representative bureaucracy - Gregory S. Thielemann and Joseph J. Stewart Jr  Faith based furor - Eyal Press  Entrepreneurship in the public sector: on the horns of a dilemma - Felice D. Perlmutter and Ram A. Cnaan  The limits of privatism - Timothy Barnekov, Robin Boyle and Daniel Rich 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0765609614 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Burocracia<br/>Representação Política<br/>Participação Social<br/>Democracia<br/> Ciência Política<br/>Serviço Público<br/>Forma de Estado<br/>Administração Federal
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Estados Unidos