Bureaucracy and Self-Government
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Bureaucracy and Self-Government

Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics

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Bureaucracy and Self-Government

Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics

About this book

A thorough update to this well-regarded political history of American public administration.

In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, Cook offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about "big government."

Cook enriches his historical analysis with new scholarship and extends that analysis to the present, taking account of significant developments since the mid-1990s. Each chapter has been updated, and two new chapters sharpen Cook's argument for recognizing a constitutive dimension in normative theorizing about public administration. The second edition also includes reviews of Jeffersonian impacts on administrative theory and practice and Jacksonian developments in national administrative structures and functions, a look at the administrative theorizing that presaged progressive reforms in civil service, and insight into the confounding complexities that characterize public thinking about administration in a postmodern political order.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Series Editor’s Foreword
  8. Preface to the First Edition
  9. Acknowledgments to the First Edition
  10. 1 Public Administration as Instrument and Institution
  11. 2 Preserving the Chain of Dependence: The Ideas of the Founding and Early Republic
  12. 3 Restoring Republican Virtue: The Impact of Jacksonian Ideals
  13. 4 Perfecting the Neutral Instrument: Transformations of the Second State and Progressive Reforms
  14. 5 Serving the Liberal State: Administration and the Rise of the New Deal Political Order
  15. 6 Politics and Administration after the New Deal: Liberal Orthodoxy and Its Challenges
  16. 7 The Constitutive Dimension of Public Administration: Appreciating Consequences
  17. 8 Bureaucracy and the Future of American Self-Government
  18. References
  19. Index