Mark Cassell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Kent State University.

Cassell provides us with a rigorously detailed organizational study... In doing this he draws heavily on the public management literature, but Cassell seeks to extend this literature to an analysis of public/private hybrid agencies that, by some accounts, are becoming more common. Cassell's multilayered analysis is sophisticated and carefully thought out. He presents and contextualizes in clear form the myriad forces that undoubtedly shape the behavior of public agencies. Governance Offers thick case study in the sense that good soup is thick-full of juicy morsels... The description of the two agencies is riveting in the detail... what makes the book valuable is the care and detail with which the argument is documented and the vivid way the story is told... a rare comparative study of agency politics. Perspectives on Politics

• List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Introduction: How the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Treuhandansalt Managed the Sales of the Century 2. Bureaucratic Outputs 3. Personnel, Culture, and Organizational Structure: The Impact of Administrative Characteristics on the Performance of the RTC and THA 4. Structured Choices and Consequences 5. The Impact of Task Environment on Performance 6. The Impact of National Institutional Environments 7. Stragetic Bureaucracies and Their Consequences Appendix-Interviews References Index

Mark Cassell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Kent State University.

Cassell provides us with a rigorously detailed organizational study... In doing this he draws heavily on the public management literature, but Cassell seeks to extend this literature to an analysis of public/private hybrid agencies that, by some accounts, are becoming more common. Cassell's multilayered analysis is sophisticated and carefully thought out. He presents and contextualizes in clear form the myriad forces that undoubtedly shape the behavior of public agencies. Governance Offers thick case study in the sense that good soup is thick-full of juicy morsels... The description of the two agencies is riveting in the detail... what makes the book valuable is the care and detail with which the argument is documented and the vivid way the story is told... a rare comparative study of agency politics. Perspectives on Politics

• List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Introduction: How the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Treuhandansalt Managed the Sales of the Century 2. Bureaucratic Outputs 3. Personnel, Culture, and Organizational Structure: The Impact of Administrative Characteristics on the Performance of the RTC and THA 4. Structured Choices and Consequences 5. The Impact of Task Environment on Performance 6. The Impact of National Institutional Environments 7. Stragetic Bureaucracies and Their Consequences Appendix-Interviews References Index

Mark Cassell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Kent State University.

Cassell provides us with a rigorously detailed organizational study... In doing this he draws heavily on the public management literature, but Cassell seeks to extend this literature to an analysis of public/private hybrid agencies that, by some accounts, are becoming more common. Cassell's multilayered analysis is sophisticated and carefully thought out. He presents and contextualizes in clear form the myriad forces that undoubtedly shape the behavior of public agencies. Governance Offers thick case study in the sense that good soup is thick-full of juicy morsels... The description of the two agencies is riveting in the detail... what makes the book valuable is the care and detail with which the argument is documented and the vivid way the story is told... a rare comparative study of agency politics. Perspectives on Politics

• List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Introduction: How the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Treuhandansalt Managed the Sales of the Century 2. Bureaucratic Outputs 3. Personnel, Culture, and Organizational Structure: The Impact of Administrative Characteristics on the Performance of the RTC and THA 4. Structured Choices and Consequences 5. The Impact of Task Environment on Performance 6. The Impact of National Institutional Environments 7. Stragetic Bureaucracies and Their Consequences Appendix-Interviews References Index