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One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges, choices, and opportunities
this dilemma poses for governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives, is methodologically diverse, and is
fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable for
assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading scholars think it should go in the future.The Oxford
Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the
scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of
American Politics: George C. Edwards III
One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges, choices, and opportunities
this dilemma poses for governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives, is methodologically diverse, and is
fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable for
assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading scholars think it should go in the future.The Oxford
Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the
scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of
American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Contributors
Preface
PART I INTRODUCTION
1: Robert F. Durant: A Heritage Made Our Own
PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
2: David Brian Robertson: Historical Institutionalism, Political
Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy
3: Kimberley Johnson: The 'First New Federalism' and the
Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929
4: Hindy Lauer Schachter: A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform
Era Revisited
5: David H. Rosenbloom: Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public
Administrative Theory
6: Jonathan Koppell: Metaphors and the Development of American
Bureaucracy
7: Robert F. Durant: Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy,
and Administrative Reform Movements
PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
8: B. Dan Wood: Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy
9: Amy B. Zegart: Agency Design and Evolution
10: Hal G. Rainey: Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American
Bureaucracy
11: Steven Maynard-Moody & Shannon Portillo: Street-Level
Bureaucracy Theory
12: Donald P. Moynihan: The Promises and Paradoxes of
Performance-Based Bureaucracy
13: Anne M. Khademian: Leading Through Cultural Change
14: Ralph P. Hummel & Camilla Stivers: Postmodernism, Bureaucracy,
and Democracy
PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
15: H. George Frederickson & Edmund C. Stazyk: Myths, Markets, and
the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy
16: Michael McGuire & Robert Agranoff: Networking in the Shadow of
Bureaucracy
17: Jocelyn M. Johnston & Barbara S. Romzek: The Promises,
Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting
18: Wolfgang Bielefeld, James L. Perry, & Ann Marie Thomson: 18.
Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social
Entrepreneurship, and Leveraged Volunteerism
19: Beryl A. Radin & Paul Posner: Policy Tools, Mandates, and
Intergovernmental Relations
20: Sharon L. Caudle: Promises, Perils, and Performance of
Netcentric Bureaucracy
21: Carolyn J. Hill & Carolyn J. Heinrich: Multilevel Methods in
the Study of Bureaucracy
PART V RECALIBRATING POLITICS, RESPONSIVENESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY
IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
22: George A. Krause: Legislative Delegation of Authority to
Bureaucratic Agencies
23: Robert F. Durant & William G. Resh: 'Presidentializing' the
Bureaucracy
24: Jerry L. Mashaw: Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Judicial
Review
25: Cornelius Kerwin, Scott Furlong, & William West: Interest
Groups, Rulemaking, and American Bureaucracy
26: Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, & Ashley E. Jochim:
Policymaking, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Overhead Democracy
27: Jonathan Bendor & Thomas H. Hammond: Choice-Theoretic
Approaches to Bureaucratic Structure
PART VI REVITALIZING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, RESOURCE CAPACITY, AND
ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
28: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?
29: Norma M. Riccucci: Revitalizing Human Resources Management
30: Lael R. Keiser: Representative Bureaucracy
Daniel R. Mullins & John L. Mikesell: Innovations in Budgeting and
Financial Management
32: Guy B. Adams & Danny L. Balfour: The Prospects for Revitalizing
Ethics in a New Governance Era
33: Gary J. Miller & Andrew B. Whitford: Experimental Methods,
Agency Incentives, and the Study of Bureaucratic Behavior
Index
Robert F. Durant 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.
He 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.
The Oxford Handbook of the American Bureaucracy is an integrative
attempt to get scholars of bureaucracy who are working in different
fields and traditions to talk to each other. The Handbook debates
whether or not we have made any progress since the classic works of
Max Weber. The volume convinces me the answer is "yes."
*Kenneth J. Meier, Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts, Texas
A&M University *
The Oxford Handbook of the American Bureaucracy is an indispensable
reference work for scholars of public administration and for
graduate students. The essays cover the state of the art on a wide
variety of topics including, among others, the historical
development of the bureaucracy in the US, street level delegation,
the paradoxes of performance measurement, public-NGO collaboration,
statistical methods for discerning multi-level effects,
controversies about appropriate models for understanding how
bureaucracy actually works in a context demanding both
accountability and problem-solving, and the various meanings of
representative bureaucracy. The essays do not merely cover the
extant literature. They bring fundamental controversies to the
surface and clarify them analytically. The editor, Robert Durant,
has organized this Handbook superbly and has written a broad-gauged
and compelling introductory essay for it.
*Bert A. Rockman, Purdue University*
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