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By Robert F. Durant (Edited by)

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Table of Contents

Contents ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; About the Contributors ; Preface ; PART I INTRODUCTION ; 1. A Heritage Made Our Own ; PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? ; 2. Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy ; 3. The 'First New Federalism' and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929 ; 4. A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform Era Revisited ; 5. Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public Administrative Theory ; 6. Metaphors and the Development of American Bureaucracy ; 7. Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and Administrative Reform Movements ; PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? ; 8. Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy ; 9. Agency Design and Evolution ; 10. Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American Bureaucracy ; 11. Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory ; 12. The Promises and Paradoxes of Performance-Based Bureaucracy ; 13. Leading Through Cultural Change ; 14. Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy ; PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? ; 15. Myths, Markets, and the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy ; 16. Networking in the Shadow of Bureaucracy ; 17. The Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting ; 18. 18. Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leveraged Volunteerism ; 19. Policy Tools, Mandates, and Intergovernmental Relations ; 20. Promises, Perils, and Performance of Netcentric Bureaucracy ; 21. Multilevel Methods in the Study of Bureaucracy ; PART V RECALIBRATING POLITICS, RESPONSIVENESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? ; 22. Legislative Delegation of Authority to Bureaucratic Agencies ; 23. 'Presidentializing' the Bureaucracy ; 24. Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Judicial Review ; 25. Interest Groups, Rulemaking, and American Bureaucracy ; 26. Policymaking, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Overhead Democracy ; 27. Choice-Theoretic Approaches to Bureaucratic Structure ; PART VI REVITALIZING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, RESOURCE CAPACITY, AND ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY? ; 28. Has Governance Eclipsed Government? ; 29. Revitalizing Human Resources Management ; 30. Representative Bureaucracy ; Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management ; 32. The Prospects for Revitalizing Ethics in a New Governance Era ; 33. Experimental Methods, Agency Incentives, and the Study of Bureaucratic Behavior ; Index

About the Author

Robert F. Durant has authored or co-authored national award-winning articles and books in the fields of Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Management, the Presidency, and Environmental and Natural Resources Policy. He has received the Charles H. Levine Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Administration research, teaching, and service. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where is also Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy.