Bureaucracy and Self-Government Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1996
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For more than two centuries, argues Brian Cook in Bureaucracy and Self-Government, two conceptions of public administration have coexisted in American politics: the instrumental (bureaucracy simply implements the policies of elected officials) and the constitutive (bureaucracy also shapes public policy and thus the character of the political community). Through an examination of key conflicts in American political development--from the debates of 1789 through the Jacksonian era controversies and the confrontations of the New Deal--Cook describes the constant tension between these two views of public administration and the eventual dominance of the instrumental view in public discourse and political action.
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