Politics -- Bureaucracy

Indeks : p.271 - 284 ; p.229 - 270 ; This book addresses two audiences. First, it serves as an introduction to politics and the bureaucracy to those interested in politics. Bureaucracy, just as the president, Congress, or the Supreme Court, is a political institution. It must build political support for its actions, and it uses that political support to interact with the other political institutions, so a separate book is often necessary to introduce students to the intricacies ofbureaucratic politics in the United States. When the first edition was published in 1979, fewer than a dozen empirical scholars of bureaucracy and public policy were publishing research. The 1980s saw an explosion of research on bureaucracy. A large and growing group of scholars have focused their work on the political role of bureaucracy. At thepresent, it is one of the most dynamic fields in political science. Much of this work is cited in the bibliography at the end of the book.