Modern Systems of Government
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Modern Systems of Government

Exploring the Role of Bureaucrats and Politicians

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modern Systems of Government

Exploring the Role of Bureaucrats and Politicians

About this book

The success or failure of empires, nation-states, and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. In this provocative and timely volume, editor Ali Farazmand examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats and how they affect modern governance. This book is organized around the major themes of professionalism, bureaucracy, governance, and the relationship between career bureaucrats/higher civil servants and political appointees/politicians under presidential and parliamentary systems. After introducing the basic elements of bureaucracies in Part I, the book discusses the relations between bureaucrats and politicians in presidential systems in Part II as well as in parliamentary systems in Part III. This original and up-to-date book will fill a gap in the literature on the relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in modern governance and public administration. It can be used as a primary or supplementary text at the undergraduate and graduate level for those interested in public administration, comparative public policy, political science, and government.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I - Professionalism, Bureaucracy, and Modern Governance
  6. Chapter 1 - Coups and Crashes: Lessons for Public Administration
  7. Chapter 2 - Professionalism, Bureaucracy, and Modern Governance: A Comparative Analysis
  8. Chapter 3 - Professionalism in Bureaucracy: Some Comparisons Based on the Indian Case
  9. Chapter 4 - The U.S. Civil Service: 1883 – 1993 (R.I.P)
  10. Chapter 5 - Political Power and the Centrality of Administration
  11. Part II - Bureaucrats and Politicians in Presidential Systems
  12. Chapter 6 - The U.S. Constitutional Separation of Powers and Federal Administration
  13. Chapter 7 - Politics and Bureaucracy: Their Impact on Professionalism
  14. Chapter 8 - The Pendleton Act of 1883 and Professionalism in the U.S. Public Service
  15. Chapter 9 - Transients and Careerists in Latin America
  16. Part Ill - Bureaucrats and Politicians in Parliamentary Systems
  17. Chapter 10 - Bureaucrats and Political Appointees in European Democracies: Who's Who and does it Make any Difference?
  18. Chapter 11 - Getting on in Government: Political Priorities and Professional Civil Servants
  19. Part IV - The state of the Current State
  20. Chapter 12 - "Honey, I Shrank the State"
  21. Author Index
  22. Subject Index
  23. About the Editor
  24. About the Contributors