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| List of Tables and Figures | ||
| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Toward a More Dynamic Conception of Bureaucracy | 1 |
| Popular Perceptions of Bureaucratic Adaptation | 2 | |
| Legitimacy, the Constitution, and Bureaucratic Adaptation | 5 | |
| 2 | Scholarly Thinking and Research on the Bureaucracy | 13 |
| Normative Controversies over Politics and the Bureaucracy | 13 | |
| Empirical Controversies over Politics and the Bureaucracy | 18 | |
| The Principal-Agent Model | 22 | |
| 3 | The Dynamics of Political Control of the Bureaucracy | 27 |
| Theories of Political Control | 28 | |
| Past Research | 29 | |
| Methods and Data | 31 | |
| Studies in Political Control | 71 | |
| 4 | The Dynamics of Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation | 77 |
| Past Research | 78 | |
| An Adaptive Model of Politics and the Bureaucracy | 79 | |
| Data, Measurement, and Hypotheses | 83 | |
| Four Models of Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation | 88 | |
| 5 | A Bottom-Up Perspective on Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation | 103 |
| The Sources of Bureaucratic Power | 104 | |
| Expertise, Exogenous Events, Issue Salience, and Nonrecursive Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation | 107 | |
| Constituency, Vitality, and Leadership in Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation | 115 | |
| 6 | Promoting Bureaucratic Accountability: A Two-Way Street | 129 |
| Information and Oversight | 130 | |
| Agency Theory | 132 | |
| Policy Monitoring | 136 | |
| 7 | Bureaucratic Democracy and Its Dysfunctions | 141 |
| On the Legitimacy of Bureaucracy in a Democracy | 142 | |
| On the Roles of Political Principals | 145 | |
| How Well Is Bureaucratic Democracy Working? | 150 | |
| Appendix | 155 | |
| Notes | 157 | |
| References | 165 | |
| About the Book and Authors | 177 | |
| Index | 179 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $661.95 | Digital |
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Matthew Fox
reviewed Bureaucratic Dynamics on September 23, 2012
Bureaucratic Dynamics
As much as I like Fineman on MSNBC shows like Countdown and Hardball, I just couldn't get into this book. He presents both sides of the arguments well, and I agree with his book's premise that our country's founding talent of civil political discourse is long gone. Now all we do is shout at each other instead of debate in the classic Lincoln/Douglas way.
However, this book needed a better editor. Fineman could have cut about 50-100 pages out of this book by sticking to the purpose of the book and the topics of each chapter. I understand the concept of background stories, but they felt more like history lessons. A chapter on presidential power does not need a 2-page summary of the 1980 election-it would have been better served by talking about the power of the executive branch under Presidents Carter and Reagan.
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