Representative bureaucracy and the American political system

Politics & Social Sciences

Krislov, Samuel

Politics & Government

Praeger

Representative Bureaucracy and the American Political System

Clash of Issues: Readings and Problems in American Government

Clash of Issues: Readings and Problems in American Government

LEE, Raymond

Pearson College Div

The readings in this collection provide a comprehensive guide to the established knowledge and emerging issues regarding democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative. The book includes both classic and cutting-edge works, and presents a contemporary model for analyzing representative bureaucracy that focuses on the linkages between social origins, life experiences, attitudes, and administrators' decision making. The selections address many of the leading concerns of contemporary politics, including diversity and equal opportunity policy, democratic control of administration, administrative performance, the pros and cons of the new public management, and reinventing government. Many of the field's most cited works are included. Each chapter starts with an introductory summary of the key questions under consideration and concludes with discussion questions. With it's extensive selection of classic and contemporary readings, the book will have wide application for courses on bureaucracy, public administration, and public sector human resource management.

Representative bureaucracy

PRENTICE/HALL

Rosenbloom, David H.

Praeger Pub Text

The case excerpts contained in this text are preceded by essays that place each case in its historical, political, and constitutional perspective. Among the major topics covered are judicial review and court power, separation of powers, national authority over commerce and taxation, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, rights of the accused, and equal protection.

Constitutional Law

Feeley, Malcolm M.

Rules & Procedures

Scott, Foresman Co.

Nations use product standards, and manipulate them, for reasons other than rational use. For example, the Soviet Bloc once cultivated standards to isolate themselves. The author of this study explores the origins, evolution and influence of product standards and their uses for national identity.

How Nations Choose Product Standards and Standards Change Nations (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Business & Money

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Representative Bureaucracy

"Professor Samuel Krislov’s Representative Bureaucracy remains among the most important and enduring books in the field of public administration and its intersection with political science. It takes the kernel of the idea, inchoately introduced in J. Donald Kingsley’s 1944 book by the same title, that public bureaucracies can be representative political institutions and it develops an overall analytic framework with empirically testable propositions that has served subsequent generations scholars very well. So well, in fact, that as the literature on representative bureaucracy blossomed, these propositions have become so ingrained that many younger scholars are unaware of their initial formulation and roots. That is one reason why the republication of this volume now is not only appropriate, but a critical step toward more tightly organizing the vast literature that it arguably spawned into a comprehensive empirically-based theory integrating all facets of the study of representative bureaucracy.... Krislov entered into this contentiousness [over affirmative action and agency socialization] with unusual balance, sophistication, and nuance—and substantial success in advancing our thinking about how public bureaucracies can and cannot be representative." — David H. Rosenbloom Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, American University, Washington D.C. (from the new Foreword) "Whatever Sam Krislov has written has been well ahead of the curve. This important book was pathbreaking when it was first published and remains an important statement on a timely issue. With this republication, it will now be available to a new generation of scholars." — Malcolm M. Feeley Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Law School, University of California at Berkeley Part of the new Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro Books, this modern republication of a foundational book in public administration and political science is presented with updated formatting, larger font, and embedded page numbers from the original edition—for continuity of referencing and ready classroom assignment.

Quid Pro, LLC

The Negro in Federal Employment is a classic study of civil rights in the U.S. civil service at a time of tumultuous change and reexamination. Praised widely on its initial publication in 1967, Krislov's book remains an important part of the canon of literature on African American history, labor and civil service, the political science of federal employment and bureaucratic representativeness, affirmative action, and flashpoint issues of race, discrimination, and accommodation—in short, the continuing quest for equal opportunity. The modern Classics of the Social Sciences edition from Quid Pro Books adds a new, reflective preface by the author and a new foreword by Keith Boyum, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at California State University, Fullerton. As Boyum writes, the book remains not only a useful summary of a substantial body of scholarship, "but also also draws essential information from government reports and print media" during a time of "initiatives in the struggle for civil rights." He advises: "Read the book for the historical scholarship, and expect to grasp major themes in an economical rendering." It also has "continuing usefulness in the realm of intellectual history. At least two enduring strands of conceptual work were very usefully forwarded," including representative bureaucracy and the concept of merit. "Krislov offers a still-useful primer. And in doing so, the analysis in this volume appears to anticipate the battles over affirmative action, and more broadly over who gets what, when, and how in contests featuring groups identified by race or national origin." Finally, Boyum suggests that new readers will "recapture the sense of the times when the civil rights movement was near the top of the national agenda, and seemed unambiguously the right course of action. Yet read the book also to derive a sense of how a strong political science analysis can anticipate future policy developments"—including bias in public employment based on gender and disability, even age and pregnancy status. "In all, this is a slim yet significant book, open to a fresh appreciation." The book does more than collect data and note trends—it provides a much-recognized intellectual frame to the issues of merit, equality, and representativeness that raw data does not convey. It provides an enduring foundation to these important issues, now available in modern print format and accompanying ebook editions to reach a new generation of readers.

The Negro in Federal Employment: The Quest for Equal Opportunity

Social Sciences

"Professor Samuel Krislov's 'Representative Bureaucracy' remains among the most important and enduring books in the field of public administration and its intersection with political science. It takes the kernel of the idea, inchoately introduced in J. Donald Kingsley's 1944 book by the same title, that public bureaucracies can be representative political institutions and it develops an overall analytic framework with empirically testable propositions that has served subsequent generations scholars very well. So well, in fact, that as the literature on representative bureaucracy blossomed, these propositions have become so ingrained that many younger scholars are unaware of their initial formulation and roots. That is one reason why the republication of this volume now is not only appropriate, but a critical step toward more tightly organizing the vast literature that it arguably spawned into a comprehensive empirically-based theory integrating all facets of the study of representative bureaucracy." - David H. Rosenbloom, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, American University (from the new Foreword) *** Now available for the first time in hardcover edition, republished from the original classic and using embedded images from the original as well-allowing continuity of referencing and citation. New edition from Quid Pro Books bring this important work back to print, and in library-quality format, no less.

Administrative Law

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Representative bureaucracy and the American political system

Representative bureaucracy and the American political system

Clash of Issues: Readings and Problems in American Government

Representative bureaucracy

Representative Bureaucracy and the American Political System

Constitutional Law

How Nations Choose Product Standards and Standards Change Nations (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

Representative Bureaucracy

The Negro in Federal Employment: The Quest for Equal Opportunity

Representative Bureaucracy