Bureaucracy and Democracy
Accountability and Performance
- Steven J. Balla - George Washington University, USA
- William T. Gormley, Jr. - Georgetown University, USA
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 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.
The Contours of Public Bureaucracy |
Accountability and Performance in Public Bureaucracies |
Accountability and Its Many Faces |
The Push for Performance |
Accountability and Performance: Theories and Applications |
Bounded Rationality |
Simplified Problem Solving |
Evidence-Based Research |
Implications for Policy Analysis |
Motivation |
Consequences of Bounded Rationality |
Conclusion |
Delegation, Adverse Selection, and Moral Hazard |
Why Bureaucracy? |
Managing Delegation |
Principal-Agent Theory and the Bureaucracy’s Clients |
Principals and Principles |
The Benefits, Costs, and Politics of Public Policy |
The Rise and Fall of Iron Triangles |
The Venues of Client Participation |
Client Influence on Bureaucratic Policymaking |
Clients and the Institutions of Government |
Client Participation: Three Lessons and Beyond |
Networks versus Hierarchies |
Network Theory |
The Tools Approach |
Types of Bureaucratic Networks |
Network Effectiveness |
The Effectiveness of Policy Tools |
Networks and Public Bureaucracy |
The Gulf of Mexico: Two Crises with Precedent |
September 11, 2001: A Crisis without Precedent |
Avian Influenza: A Crisis in the Making? |
Evaluating Bureaucracy in Light of the Theories |
Rating the Performance of Agencies |
Explaining Variations in Performance |
Alternative Ways of Gauging Agency Performance |
Bureaucracy in the Twenty-First Century |
HEOA Compliance
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