Handbook of Bureaucracy

"It is not very often that one comes across a book which is so comprehensive in its ken, so incisive in its analyses and so rich in content, all at once-the book under review 'Handbook of Bureaucracy' fits all these descriptions like a glove. It contains forty-three essays on myriad aspects of bureaucracy, each written by a specialist…The book just about covers everything that there is to know about bureaucracy."-The Hindustan Times"…a very useful reference tool for students of public administration."-International Review of Administrative SciencesPromo Copy

• Part 1 Historical Perspectives on Bureaucracy: Public Administration, Administrative Thought and the Emergence of the Nation State; Administration of the Spanish Empire In the Americas. Part 2 Theoretical/Conceptual Perspectives on Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics: Excessive Bureaucratization - The J-Curve Theory of Bureaucracy and Max Weber Through the Looking Glass; Max Weber - Victim of Ethnocentric Mishandling, or How Weber Became a Management Consultant; Getung at the Essence of the Administrative State; The Bureaucracy-Democracy Conundrum - A Contemporary Inquiry into the Labyrinth. Part 3 Bureaucracy, Politics, and Society: Government Reorganization - A Theoretical Analysis; Organizational Strategy for Coping with External Environments - Reducing Work-Loads as One Approach; Bureaucracy and the Environmental Crisis - A Comparative Perspective; Bureaucracy and Modernization; The Thatcher Agenda, the Civil Science, and Total Etriciency. Part 4 Bureaucracy, Public Policy, and Administration/Management: Bureaucracy in International Organizations - Building Capacity and Credibility in a Newly Interdependent World; Privatization and Debureaucratization - A Comparative Analysis of Bureaucratic Alternatives; Managing Human and Natural Disasters In Developing Nations - The Multidimensional Bureaucratic Role; Organizational Conflict. Part 5 Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics in North/Central/Latin America: The Emergence of the American Administrative State - The Intellectual Origins; Three Efforts at Managing Crises from FDR's White House; Supreme Court Articulation of the Politics/Administration Dichotomy; Bureaucracy and Justice - An Overview of Criminal Justice In the United States; Termination and Bureaucracy - Ending Government Programmes, Policies and Organizations. Part 6 Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics in Europe and Australia: Genesis of Public Administration and its Early Development In Australia, 1788-1856; Political and Managerial Reform in a Small State - The Relevance of the 1980s. Part 7 Bureaucracy and Politics In Asia, Africa and the Middle/Near East: Public Bureaucracy In Korea; A Subordinate Bureaucracy - The Philippine Civil Service to 1992; Bureaucracy and Rural Development In Bangladesh; Bureaucracy in the Ottoman-Turkish Polity.