The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic"The Case for Bureaucracy" vigorously makes the argument that the public servants and administrative institutions of government in America are among the best in the world. Contrary to popular myth, they are not sources of great waste or threat to liberty, but social assets of critical value to a functioning democracy. In presenting his case, Goodsell covers many aspects of public administration and draws on current events to bring the material alive and up-to-date. This new edition incorporates September 11th and its consequences for public administration. Also a complete assessment is made of the Reinventing Government movement and related reforms. |
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... myth creation . Americans have worked themselves into a state of believing- at a generalized level of conceptualization - that their government does not per- form . The drastic nature of this myth is , when one thinks about it , quite ...
... myth creation . Americans have worked themselves into a state of believing- at a generalized level of conceptualization - that their government does not per- form . The drastic nature of this myth is , when one thinks about it , quite ...
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... myth is justification . In this instance the myth not merely convinces its user of the validity of a strained ver- sion of reality but it convinces others . Examples of this kind of myth from ideological politics are " free enterprise ...
... myth is justification . In this instance the myth not merely convinces its user of the validity of a strained ver- sion of reality but it convinces others . Examples of this kind of myth from ideological politics are " free enterprise ...
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... myth is of value be- cause it deflects antiregime sentiment in a way nonthreatening to those in pow- er . In many Third World countries it " explains " why development plans are not realized . As for the United States , Americans ...
... myth is of value be- cause it deflects antiregime sentiment in a way nonthreatening to those in pow- er . In many Third World countries it " explains " why development plans are not realized . As for the United States , Americans ...
Contents
BUREAUCRACY DESPISED AND DISPARAGED | 1 |
SOME SUSPICIONS SOME SURPRISES | 38 |
GREAT BUT IMPOSSIBLE EXPECTATIONS | 61 |
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