Bureaucracy and Democracy

4th Edition

Accountability and Performance

Steven J. Balla; William T. Gormley, Jr.
eISBN-13: 9781506348896

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Given the influence of public bureaucracies in policymaking and implementation, Steven J. Balla and William T. Gormley assess their performance using four key perspectives—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory—to help students develop an analytic framework for evaluating bureaucratic accountability. The new Fourth Edition provides a thorough review of bureaucracy during the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as new attention to state and local level examples and the role of bureaucratic values.


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ISBNs 1506348890, 9781506348872, 9781506348902, 9781506348889, 9781506348889, 9781506348896, 9781506348889
Language English
Number of Pages 360
Edition 4th