Record Nr.

UNINA9910453543703321

Autore

Suleiman Ezra

Titolo

Dismantling democratic states / / Ezra Suleiman

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2003
©2003

ISBN

0-691-11534-6

1-4008-5073-8

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Organizational change

Administrative agencies - Reorganization

Privatization

Bureaucracy

Democracy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The End of Bureaucracy? -- Chapter 2. Beyond Weber? -- Chapter 3. New Conceptions of Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Citizenship -- Chapter 4. Popular Dissatisfaction and Administrative Reform -- Chapter 5. Universalistic Reforms -- Chapter 6. Emulating the Private Sector -- Chapter 7. The Reluctant Reformers: Japan and France -- Chapter 8. Deprofessionalization: The Decline of the Civil Service Career -- Chapter 9. Deprofessionalization: The Process of Politicization -- Chapter 10. The End of the Nonpolitical Bureaucracy -- Chapter 11. Constructing a Bureaucratic Apparatus in East-Central Europe -- Chapter 12. The Politics of Bureaucratic Reform -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the

source of democracy's ills. This is a book as much about good governance as it is about bureaucratic organizations. Suleiman asks: Is democratic governance hindered without an effective instrument in the hands of the legitimately elected political leadership? Is a professional bureaucracy required for developing but not for maintaining a democratic state? Why has a reform movement arisen in recent years championing the gradual dismantling of bureaucracy, and what are the consequences? Suleiman undertakes a comparative analysis of the drive toward a civil service grounded in the New Public Management. He argues that "government reinvention" has limited bureaucracy's capacity to adequately serve the public good. All bureaucracies have been under political pressure in recent years to reduce not only their size but also their effectiveness, and all have experienced growing deprofessionalism and politicization. He compares the impact of this evolution in both democratic societies and societies struggling to consolidate democratic institutions. Dismantling Democratic States cautions that our failure to acknowledge the role of an effective bureaucracy in building and preserving democratic political systems threatens the survival of democracy itself.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778648403321

Titolo

Capacity of U.S. climate modeling to support climate change assessment activities [[electronic resource] /] / Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998

ISBN

0-309-17343-4

1-280-18612-7

9786610186129

0-309-59279-8

0-585-14454-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (77 p.)

Collana

The compass series

Disciplina

551.6/01/13

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Mathematical models

Climatic changes - Research - United States