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Taming the Bureaucracy - Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies (Hardcover)
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Taming the Bureaucracy - Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in
our historyan era in which we attempted to control public
bureaucracies through interest representation, due process,
management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United
States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has
emerged with a weaker, less autonomous bureaucracy. In a book that
will interest not only public administration specialists but
students of American government generally, William Gormley examines
the consequences of the reform efforts of the 1970s and 1980s and
seeks to understand why, despite an astonishing number of these
efforts, we remain dissatisfied with the results. "The American
bureaucracy is beleaguered and besieged," writes Gormley.
"...Unfortunately, the bureaucracy's critics are equally capable of
blunders." The author explains our situation by analyzing a
spectrum of controls ranging from catalytic to hortatory to
coercive. Catalytic controls--such as proxy advocacy, environmental
impact statements, and freedom-of-information acts--are most
flexible, while coercive controls--such as legislative vetoes,
executive orders, and judicial take-overs of state
institutions--are most rigid. While recommending that controls be
tailored both to issues and to bureaucracies, Gormley shows that
coercive interventions (or muscles) often generate new bureaucratic
pathologies without eradicating old ones. In contrast, catalytic
controls (or prayers) energize the bureaucracy without
predetermining a hastily crafted response. Originally published in
1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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