CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

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?

Hague & Harrop, 2010 edn, ch. 17.

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