political science

and strong forms of 491 – 2
and tricameralism 483 – 4
and under-theorizing of 476 – 7
and upper/second chambers:
characteristics of 494
role of 479 , 480 – 1
and weak forms of 490 , 492 , 493
BONGOs 680
bottlenecks, and legislative decisiveness 446
bounded rationality, and rational choice
institutionalism 33
‘‘bowling-alone’’ syndrome 140
Brazil 261 , 444 , 447 , 451
Bretton Woods institutions 615 , 657 , 668 – 9
and impact of 670 – 1
see alsointernational economic
institutions (IEIs); International
Monetary Fund; World Bank
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society 676
British South Africa Company 419
bureaucracy:
and accountability of 375 – 6 , 383
and centralization of presidential
authority 309 – 11
and challenges facing:
boundary-spanning problems 383 – 4
developing countries 383
eYciency/democracy 376 – 7 , 383
Xexibility 377
managing external programs 377
network management 377 – 8
and characteristics of 373 – 4
and civil service rules 374
and constraints on 374
and coordination 372 – 5
and cultural context 371 – 2
and decision-making 370 – 1
and delegation 370
and discretion 370
and endurance of 382 – 3
and evolution of 746 – 7
and external control over missions of 374
and governance 383 , 384
and information 371

as instrument of state power 369 – 72

and legal constraints 374

and meanings of term 368 – 9

negative connotations 370

and origins of term 368

and paradoxes of 382 – 3

and pathologies of 374 – 5

and policy implementation 370 – 1

and principal-agent relationships 371 ,

376 , 379

and reform of:

New Public Management 378 – 80

pressures for 378

United States 380 – 2

and signiWcance of 368

and standards 374

and street-level bureaucrats 370

business:

and urban regimes 507 – 9 , 511

and welfare state 393 – 5

see alsocapitalism

cabinets:

and British constitution 707 – 8

and collective responsibility 326 , 330 , 332

and comparative analysis 337 – 9

and government overload 334 – 5

and ministerial responsibility 332

and modernist-empiricist approach

to 326

and parliamentary government 326 , 330 ,

483

and rational choice institutionalism 327

California, and direct democracy 601 , 606

Campbell Collaboration 428

Canada:

and bicameralism 492

rejection at provincial level 479

and electoral reform 588 , 590

and federalism 261 , 262 , 263 , 266

centrality to policy development 276

constitutional amendment 270

constitutional arrangements 268 – 9

constitutional interpretation 271

Wscal policy 275

subject index 783