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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

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a. To what extent, and by what means, should public administrators be subject to political control?

b. Compare the perspectives on bureaucracy offered by Weber and by advocates of the new public management. Which model do you prefer, and why, for i) an established democracy and ii) a new democracy?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 17.

D. Osborne and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government

H. Bekke, J. Perry and T. Toonen, Civil Service Systems in Comparative

Perspective , ch. by Hood

J. Boston, ed., The State Under Contract

C. Campbell and G. Wilson, The End of Whitehall: Death of a Paradigm?

B. Guy Peters, The Politics of Bureaucracy

F. Heady, Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective

W. Kickert, ed., Public Management and Administrative Reform in Western Europe

(Cheltenham: Elgar, 1998).

J.-E.Lane, ed., Public Sector Reform: Rationale, Trends and Problems (Thousand

Oaks, Calif. and London: Sage, 1998).

R. Mulgan, Holding Power to Account: Accountability in Modern Democracies

D. Osborne and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government

E. Page, Political Authority and Bureaucratic Power: A Comparative Analysis

H. Seidman, Politics, Position and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization

(Oxford and New York: Oxford, 1998)

E. Page and V. Wright, eds, Bureaucratic Elites in Western European States

E. Page and V. Wright, V., eds, From the Active to the Enabling State: The Changing Role of Top Officials in European Nations