Dismantling Democratic States / / Ezra N. Suleiman.

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 28 line illus. 26 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The End of Bureaucracy?
  • Chapter 2. Beyond Weber?
  • Chapter 3. New Conceptions of Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Citizenship
  • Chapter 4. Popular Dissatisfaction and Administrative Reform
  • Chapter 5. Universalistic Reforms
  • Chapter 6. Emulating the Private Sector
  • Chapter 7. The Reluctant Reformers: Japan and France
  • Chapter 8. Deprofessionalization: The Decline of the Civil Service Career
  • Chapter 9. Deprofessionalization: The Process of Politicization
  • Chapter 10. The End of the Nonpolitical Bureaucracy
  • Chapter 11. Constructing a Bureaucratic Apparatus in East-Central Europe
  • Chapter 12. The Politics of Bureaucratic Reform
  • Index