Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do it (Basic Books Classics)

Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do it (Basic Books Classics)

by James Wilson (Author)

Synopsis

Bureaucracy is the classic study of the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better. Examining a wide range of bureaucracies, including the Army, the FBI, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, James Q. Wilson provides the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they function as they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. With a new introduction by the author.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 30 Jan 1991

ISBN 10: 0465007856
ISBN 13: 9780465007851

Author Bio
James Q. Wilson is James Collins professor of management and public policy at UCLA. Winner of the 1990, James Madison Award of the American Political Science Association, he is also the author of Moral Sense and Moral Judgement.