A Theory of Public Bureaucracy: Politics, Personality, and Organization in the State Department

by Donald P. Warwick, Theodore Reed (With), Marvin Meade (With)

Overview

Based mainly on State Department materials, but addressing generic problems of organizational politics as well, this book provides a fresh, intelligent, and lively account of bureaucratic behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674881952
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1979
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)

Editorial Reviews

This is an excellent book, well conceived, carefully researched, and clearly written. It is one of the few analyses of an organizational reform effort in a public agency.

American Political Science Review

As a genre, the bureaucratic study is too often tedious reading. This work is a sprightly exception. It avoids reliance on quantitative surveys (which frequently mean less than meets the eye) and is well attuned to the political context of bureaucracy—including the specific politics which influenced this study.

Foreign Affairs