The Public Administration Theory Primer

50 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics of an issue and divergent preferences on what should be done based on their ob- jective ...

Politics, Power, and Organization 51 how power is distributed among various actors within the political system and in explaining ...

52 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics that a complex set of factors determine how that discretion is exercised: “When bureauc ...

Politics, Power, and Organization 53 procedures and “going by the book” provide operators with a guide to low-risk behavior. Wil ...

54 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics behave but also how power and infl uence are distributed among the various ac- tors in ...

Politics, Power, and Organization 55 Neustadt, and others have demonstrated, bureaucratic politics within the execu- tive branch ...

56 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics are distributed among the executive, the legislature, various organizational com- ponen ...

Networks and Bureaucratic Politics 57 nonprofi t agencies as well, in the process creating new forms of organizational and manag ...

58 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics to contract or privatize functions of government are inherently political, as they invo ...

Representative Bureaucracy 59 business vastly outnumber employees in the federal civil service, and reinvention shrank these num ...

60 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics nature of bureaucracy be reconciled with the seemingly contradictory egalitar- ian and ...

Representative Bureaucracy 61 More contemporary advocates of representative bureaucracy reject patronage or spoils systems as an ...

62 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics In meeting this challenge, those who advocate the theory of representative bureaucracy ...

Representative Bureaucracy 63 A large portion of empirical research on representative bureaucracy in the United States is thus d ...

64 3: Th eories of Bureaucratic Politics representing that group. Nick Th eobald and Donald Haider-Markel (2009), by examining c ...

Summary 65 decentralized nature of the American system meant a program’s success or failure was tied to the political muscle of ...

66 4 Public Institutional Th eory Like all complex subjects, public organizations are more easily understood aft er being unbund ...

Institutional Th eory 67 It (1989) and March and Olsen in Rediscovering Institutions (1989) form much of the underpinnings of ou ...

68 4: Public Institutional Th eory theory is not limited to the study of government bureaucracies and as a result has moved well ...

Institutional Th eory 69 Institutionalism, working primarily from the political economies and rational choice perspectives (Egg ...