Bureaucratic Democracy: The Search for Democracy and Efficiency in American Government

by Douglas Yates

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Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government.

Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674086120

ISBN13:9780674086128

Release Date:January 1987

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:235 Pages

Weight:0.62 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Business & Investing Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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