Synopses & Reviews
Gerald Garvey provides a fascinating look inside the federal bureaucracy and offers insights into the forces, personalities, and politicking that make changing governmental institutions so difficult.
Review
"An important synthesis of the literature on public administration theories, with a realistic dose of practice to make the book work effectively for students and experts in the field." —Richard P. Nathan, provost, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, SUNY at Albany
"A fascinating insider tale of attempts at organizational change." —John P. Burke, associate professor and chair, department of political science, University of Vermont
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
About the Author
GERALD GARVEY is professor of politics at Princeton University, where he teaches public management in the Woodrow Wilson School. Among his publications are Economic Law and Economic Growth with George Garvey, Strategy and the Defense Dilemma, and Nuclear Power and Social Planning.
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Bureaucracy Building to Bureaucracy Bashing
Part One: Our Public Bureaucracies--In Theory and in Practice
1. Old Versus New Theories of Bureaucracy
2. The Bureaucracy: What It Is and How It Works
Part Two: A Case Study in Organizational Innovation
3. New President, New Policy, New Chairman at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
4. Regulation and Discretion: ``Are We in Trouble?"
5. Launching a Project of Organizational Change
6. The Task Force as an Engine for Innovation
7. Discretion, Negotiation, and Litigation
8. Bureaucracy Under Stress: A Federal Investigation and Its Aftermath
Part Three: Whither Bureaucracy?
9. The Paradox of Administrative Controls
10. To Meet the Challenges of Public Management