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Bureaucracy and Democracy

Accountability and Performance

By: Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr.

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Bureaucracy and Democracy

Accountability and Performance

By: Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr.

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 of Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 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. ? New to this Edition: Interviews with two new cabinet secretaries—Christine Todd Whitman and Tom Ridge—with insightful quotes from them throughout the book. Added material on the battle over regulations, a battle that will loom large during the Trump administration, including midnight regulations and the Congressional Review Act. New examples demonstrate the activity and influence of constituencies of different kinds including the placing of women and minorities on US currency, a vignette that features the musical Hamilton, and the political protests surrounding the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. A new discussion of the privatization of roads, the pros and cons.

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1506348904

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Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

By: William T Gormley,Steven J Balla

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Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

By: William T Gormley,Steven J Balla

Given the influence and impact of public bureaucracies in policy implementation, and the accountability they owe to the American public, their performance must be assessed in a systematic manner. With this new edition, the authors revisit their four key perspective: bounded rationality; principal-agent theory; interest group mobilization; and network theory to help students develop an analytic framework for comprehensively evaluating bureaucratic performance.

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1608717178

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Taming the Bureaucracy

Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies

By: William T. Gormley Jr.

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Taming the Bureaucracy

Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies

By: William T. Gormley Jr.

Americans are just emerging from one of the great reform eras in our historyan era in which we attempted to control public bureaucracies through interest representation, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism, and oversight. The United States has, in fact, undergone an institutional realignment and has emerged with a weaker, less autonomous bureaucracy. In a book that will interest not only public administration specialists but students of American government generally, William Gormley examines the consequences of the reform efforts of the 1970s and 1980s and seeks to understand why, despite an astonishing number of these efforts, we remain dissatisfied with the results. "The American bureaucracy is beleaguered and besieged," writes Gormley. ". . . Unfortunately, the bureaucracy's critics are equally capable of blunders." The author explains our situation by analyzing a spectrum of controls ranging from catalytic to hortatory to coercive. Catalytic controls--such as proxy advocacy, environmental impact statements, and freedom-of-information acts--are most flexible, while coercive controls--such as legislative vetoes, executive orders, and judicial take-overs of state institutions--are most rigid. While recommending that controls be tailored both to issues and to bureaucracies, Gormley shows that coercive interventions (or muscles) often generate new bureaucratic pathologies without eradicating old ones. In contrast, catalytic controls (or prayers) energize the bureaucracy without predetermining a hastily crafted response. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400860164

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Voices for Children

Rhetoric and Public Policy

By: William T. Gormley (Jr.)

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Voices for Children

Rhetoric and Public Policy

By: William T. Gormley (Jr.)

Focuses on why children's issues and programs have been given less attention and monies compared to those for the elderly with emphasis on how the mass media have covered children's issues and how this has influenced public opinion and, in turn lawmakers"--Provided by the publisher.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815724020

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Organizational Report Cards

By: William T. Gormley Jr.,David L. Weimer

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Organizational Report Cards

By: William T. Gormley Jr.,David L. Weimer

In recent years, consumers, professional organizations, government officials, and third-party payers have become increasingly concerned about how to assess the quality of the services provided by organizations in both the private and the public sectors. One new approach is the organizational report card, which compares the performance of organizations such as public schools, colleges, hospitals, and HMOs. This book offers the first comprehensive study of such instruments. It discusses the circumstances under which they are desirable alternatives to other policy instruments, such as regulation; how they should be designed; who is likely to use them and for what purpose; and what role, if any, government should have in their creation. Informed by cases drawn from education, health, and other policy areas, this book develops a conceptual framework for analyzing these issues. It explores the tradeoffs in measuring performance, the methods of communicating results effectively to mass and elite audiences, and the ways in which organizations respond to the data gathered.

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Harvard University Press

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067464350X

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The Politics of Public Utility Regulation

By: William T. Gormley, Jr.

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The Politics of Public Utility Regulation

By: William T. Gormley, Jr.

This book focuses on the important and increasingly controversial issues of utility regulation by combining a sophisticated understanding of these issues with a rigorous examination of various regulatory arrangements across the American states. It draws on interviews with participants in twelve states: public utility commissioners, commission staff members, utility company executives, governmental consumer advocates, and citizen activists. In addition to offering an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of regulatory politics at the state level, Gormley makes specific proposals for regulatory reform and emphasizes the importance (and difficulty) of assuring both expertise and accountability. Students of politics and public policy will find the state-level approach useful in examining the strategies of the "New Federalism" that transfer more and more formerly federal responsibilities to the states.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822974274

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Public Policy Analysis

An Integrated Approach

By: William N. Dunn

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Public Policy Analysis

An Integrated Approach

By: William N. Dunn

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in timely and important problems. The dedicated chapter on evidence-based policy and the role of field experiments has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded. New sections on important developments in the field have been added, including using scientific evidence in public policymaking, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and "big data." Data sets to apply analytical techniques are included online as IBM SPSS 23.0 files and are convertible to Excel, Stata, and R statistical software programs to suit a variety of course needs and teaching styles. All-new PowerPoint slides are included to make instructor preparation easier than ever before. Designed to prepare students from a variety of academic backgrounds to conduct policy analysis on their own, without requiring a background in microeconomics, Public Policy Analysis, Sixth Edition helps students develop the practical skills needed to communicate findings through memos, position papers, and other forms of structured analytical writing. The text engages students by challenging them to critically analyze the arguments of policy practitioners as well as political scientists, economists, and political philosophers.

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1351721690

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Voices for Children

Rhetoric and Public Policy

By: William T. Gormley

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Voices for Children

Rhetoric and Public Policy

By: William T. Gormley

The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare. Why has public policy neglected the development phase of young Americans' lives not only in substantive dollars spent, but also in program design and implementation? Noted child care and education policy expert William Gormley highlights the portrayal of children's issues in both the mass media and in public policymaking to explain why children have gotten short shrift. A key explanation is the limited mass media coverage of strong arguments in support of children's programs. After documenting changes in rhetoric on children and public policy over time and variations across policy domains and government venues, Gormley demonstrates that some "issue frames" are more effective than others in persuading voters. In two randomized experiments, he finds that "economic" frames are more effective than "moralistic" frames in generating public support for children's programs. Independent voters are especially responsive to economic frames. In several illuminating case studies, in Connecticut, Utah, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, he finds that strong rhetoric makes a difference but that it is sometimes eclipsed by even stronger political and economic constraints. Voices for Children offers a fresh perspective on raging debates over child health, child poverty, child welfare, and education programs at the federal and state levels. It finds some hopeful examples that could transform how we think about children's issues and the kinds of public policies we adopt.

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Bureaucracy and Democracy

Accountability and Performance

By: Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr.

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Accountability and Performance

By: Steven J. Balla,William T. Gormley, Jr.

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Organizational Report Cards

By: William T. Gormley Jr.,David L. Weimer

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By: William T. Gormley Jr.,David L. Weimer

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Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

By: William T Gormley,Steven J Balla

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Bureaucracy and Democracy

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Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

Taming the Bureaucracy

Taming the Bureaucracy

Voices for Children

Voices for Children

Organizational Report Cards

Organizational Report Cards

The Politics of Public Utility Regulation

The Politics of Public Utility Regulation

Public Policy Analysis

Public Policy Analysis

Voices for Children

Voices for Children

Bureaucracy and Democracy

Bureaucracy and Democracy

Organizational Report Cards

Organizational Report Cards

Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

Bureaucracy and Democracy: Accountability and Performance 3E

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