BUREAUCRACY & RED TAPE (P)

For basic text/supplement use in Bureaucracy, Public Administration, Organization Theory, Policy Implementation, and American Government courses. Demonstrating our need to think more deeply about our dissatisfactions with bureaucracy, this proactive text combines original explanations of bureaucratic red tape with prescription and case exampleschallenging students to develop a deeper understanding of bureaucracy as a set of trade-offs among politics, accountability and efficiency. Fair-minded in approach, it distinguishes bureaucratic normalities from bureaucratic pathologies in the internal and inter-organizational management of organizationshelping students discern the difference between which rules and regulations are reasonable accountability or coordination mechanisms, and which, in fact, can be labeled red tape.Bozeman, Barry is the author of 'BUREAUCRACY & RED TAPE (P)' with ISBN 9780136137535 and ISBN 0136137539.