Foundations of Bureaucracy in Economic and Social Thought

Edited by the late Bill Jenkins, former Professor of Public Policy and Management, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and Edward C. Page, Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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• Contents:Volume I AcknowledgementsIntroduction Bill Jenkins and Edward C. PagePART IBUREAUCRACY: BLESSING OR CURSE? 1. M.W. Jackson (1986), ‘Bureaucracy in Hegel’s Political Theory’2. Stephen Miller (1977/78), ‘Bureaucracy Baiting’3. Herbert Kaufman (1981), ‘Fear of Bureaucracy: A Raging Pandemic’4. Richard Hartwig (1990), ‘The Paradox of Malevolent/Benevolent Bureaucracy’5. John Greenaway (1992), ‘British Conservatism and Bureaucracy’PART IICHANGING HISTORICAL FORMS OF BUREAUCRACY 6. Karl A. Wittfogel (1957), excerpt from Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power7. William C. Beyer (1959), ‘The Civil Service of the Ancient World’8. C. Warren Hollister and John W. Baldwin (1978), ‘The Rise of Administrative Kingship: Henry I and Philip Augustus’9. Brian Chapman (1959), ‘Historical Introduction’10. C.J. Freidrich (1939), ‘The Continental Tradition of Training Administrators in Law and Jurisprudence’11. S.E. Finer (1952), ‘Patronage and the Public Service: Jeffersonian Bureaucracy and the British Tradition’12. John Markoff (1975), ‘Governmental Bureaucratization: General Processes and an Anomalous Case’13. Richard Rose (1976), ‘On the Priorities of Government: A Developmental Analysis of Public Policies’PART IIIBUREAUCRACY IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SYSTEMS 14. Alfred G. Meyer (1961), ‘USSR, Incorporated’15. Gerd Spittler, ‘Administrative Despotism in Peasant Societies’16. George J. Szablowski and Hans-Ulrich Derlien (1993), ‘East European Transitions, Elites, Bureaucracies, and the European Community’17. Klaus H. Goetz and Helen Z. Margetts (1999), ‘The Solitary Center: The Core Executive in Central and Eastern Europe’18. Ibnomer Mohamed Sharfuddin (1987), ‘Toward An Islamic Administrative Theory’19. Fred W. Riggs (1993), ‘Fragility of the Third World’s Regimes’20. Fred W. Riggs (1997), ‘Modernity and Bureaucracy’21. Susan L. Shirk (1992), ‘The Chinese Political System and the Political Strategy of Economic Reform’PART IVSTRUCTURES OF BUREAUCRACY ATraditional/Hierarchical22. Richard H. Hall (1963), ‘The Concept of Bureaucracy: An Empirical Assessment’BOrganizational/Corporate23. Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell (1983), ‘The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields’CProfessional24. Henry Mintzberg (1979), ‘The Professional Bureaucracy’DDecentralization25. Michel Crozier and Jean-Claude Thoenig (1976), ‘The Regulation of Complex Organized Systems’EPost-Modern26. R.A.W. Rhodes (1997), ‘Towards a Post-modern Public Administration: Epoch, Epistemology or Narrative?’PART VPROCESSES OF BUREAUCRACY ARecruitment/Socialization27. S.N. Eisenstadt (1959), ‘Bureaucracy, Bureaucratization, and Debureaucratization’BDecision-Making28. Charles E. Lindblom (1979), ‘Still Muddling, Not Yet Through’CMotivation29. Anthony Downs ([1967] 1994), ‘Officials’ Milieu, Motives, and Goals’DLeadership30. Robert D. Behn (1998), ‘What Right Do Public Managers Have to Lead?’EImplementation31. Michael Hill (1997), ’Implementation Theory: Yesterday's Issue?’FEntrepreneurship32. Carl J. Bellone and George Frederick Goerl (1992), ‘Reconciling Public Entrepreneurship and Democracy’, Larry D. Terry (1993), ‘Why We Should Abandon the Misconceived Quest to Reconcile Public Entrepreneurship with Democracy: A Response to Bellone and Goerl’s “Reconciling Public Entrepreneurship And Democracy”’, Carl J. Bellone and George Frederick Goerl (1993), ‘In Defence of Civic-Regarding Entrepreneurship or Helping Wolves to Promote Good Citizenship’Name IndexVolume II AcknowledgementsAn introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in Volume IPART IBUREAUCRATS IN ACTION AAdvice1. Simon James (1986), ‘The Central Policy Review Staff, 1970–1983’BSecrecy2. Clive Ponting (1985), ‘The Battle for the Truth’CConflict3. Ezra N. Suleiman (1974), ‘The Minister and His Administration: Relationship’DEthics4. John A. Rohr (1991), ‘Ethical Issues in French Public Administration: A Comparative Study’EAssumptive Worlds/Street-Level Bureaucrats5. Michael Lipsky (1971), ‘Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform’FCareers6. Christopher Hood (1998), ‘Individualized Contracts For Top Public Servants: Copying Business, Path-Dependent Political Re-Engineering or Trobriand Cricket?’PART IICRITIQUES AND PATHOLOGIES OF BUREAUCRACY ARules/Red Tape7. C. Northcote Parkinson ([1957] 1986), ‘Parkinson’s Law or the Rising Pyramid’BPersonality Development8. Robert K. Merton (1940), ‘Bureaucratic Structure and Personality’CGoal Conflict9. Edward Gross (1969), ‘The Definition of Organizational Goals’DAdaption to Change10. Michel Crozier (1964), ‘The French Bureaucratic System of Organization’ESuppression of Entrepreneurship11. Milton Friedman (1976), ‘The Line We Dare Not Cross: The Fragility of Freedom at “60%”’FCorruption12. Ralph Braibanti (1962), ‘Reflections on Bureaucratic Corruption’PART IIIBUREAUCRACY AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS ABureaucracy and Politicians13. Richard Rose (1987), ‘Steering the Ship of State: One Tiller but Two Pairs of Hands’BBureaucracy and Parliaments14. Max Weber (1968), ‘The Right of Parliamentary Inquiry and the Recruitment of Political Leaders’CBureaucracy and Interest Groups15. A. Grant Jordan (1981), ‘Iron Triangles, Woolly Corporatism and Elastic Nets: Images of the Policy Process’PART IVPOWER, POLITICS AND BUREAUCRACY 16. Bill Jenkins and Andrew Gray (1983), ‘Bureaucratic Politics and Power: Developments in the Study of Bureaucracy’17. Edward Rhodes (1994), ‘Do Bureaucratic Politics Matter? Some Disconfirming Findings from the Case of the U.S. Navy’18. Patrick Dunleavy (1997), ‘Explaining the Centralization of the European Union: A Public Choice Analysis’19. Robert E. Goodin (1982), ‘Rational Politicians and Rational Bureaucrats in Washington and Whitehall’20. Christopher Hood, Meg Huby and Andrew Dunsire (1984), ‘Bureaucrats and Budgeting Benefits: How Do British Central Government Departments Measure Up?’PART VBUREAUCRACY AND DEMOCRACY 21. Jerry Frug (1990), ‘Alternatives to Bureaucratic Forms of Organization: Administrative Democracy’22. Douglas C. Pitt (1979), ‘The End of Bureaucracy: The Beginning of Ideology?’23. R.A.W. Rhodes (1997), ‘From Marketization to Diplomacy: It's the Mix that Matters’24. Linda Deleon (1998), ‘Accountability in a “Reinvented” Government’PART VIBEYOND BUREAUCRACY: REFORM AND ALTERNATIVES 25. William G. Ouchi (1980), ‘Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans’26. Wolf V. Heydebrand (1989), ‘New Organizational Forms’27. Paul S. Adler and Bryan Borys (1996), ‘Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive’28. George Ritzer (1996), ‘The McDonaldization Thesis: Is Expansion Inevitable?’29. Paul Hoggett (1996), ‘New Modes of Control in the Public Service’30. B. Guy Peters and Vincent Wright (1996), ‘Public Policy and Administration, Old and New’31. Peter Aucoin (1997), ‘The Design of Public Organizations for the 21st Century: Why Bureaucracy Will Survive in Public Management’Name Index