Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Contributors
Preface
PART I INTRODUCTION
1: Robert F. Durant: A Heritage Made Our Own
PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
2: David Brian Robertson: Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy
3: Kimberley Johnson: The 'First New Federalism' and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929
4: Hindy Lauer Schachter: A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform Era Revisited
5: David H. Rosenbloom: Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public Administrative Theory
6: Jonathan Koppell: Metaphors and the Development of American Bureaucracy
7: Robert F. Durant: Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and Administrative Reform Movements
PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
8: B. Dan Wood: Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy
9: Amy B. Zegart: Agency Design and Evolution
10: Hal G. Rainey: Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American Bureaucracy
11: Steven Maynard-Moody & Shannon Portillo: Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory
12: Donald P. Moynihan: The Promises and Paradoxes of Performance-Based Bureaucracy
13: Anne M. Khademian: Leading Through Cultural Change
14: Ralph P. Hummel & Camilla Stivers: Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy
PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
15: H. George Frederickson & Edmund C. Stazyk: Myths, Markets, and the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy
16: Michael McGuire & Robert Agranoff: Networking in the Shadow of Bureaucracy
17: Jocelyn M. Johnston & Barbara S. Romzek: The Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting
18: Wolfgang Bielefeld, James L. Perry, & Ann Marie Thomson: 18. Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leveraged Volunteerism
19: Beryl A. Radin & Paul Posner: Policy Tools, Mandates, and Intergovernmental Relations
20: Sharon L. Caudle: Promises, Perils, and Performance of Netcentric Bureaucracy
21: Carolyn J. Hill & Carolyn J. Heinrich: Multilevel Methods in the Study of Bureaucracy
PART V RECALIBRATING POLITICS, RESPONSIVENESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
22: George A. Krause: Legislative Delegation of Authority to Bureaucratic Agencies
23: Robert F. Durant & William G. Resh: 'Presidentializing' the Bureaucracy
24: Jerry L. Mashaw: Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Judicial Review
25: Cornelius Kerwin, Scott Furlong, & William West: Interest Groups, Rulemaking, and American Bureaucracy
26: Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, & Ashley E. Jochim: Policymaking, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Overhead Democracy
27: Jonathan Bendor & Thomas H. Hammond: Choice-Theoretic Approaches to Bureaucratic Structure
PART VI REVITALIZING THE CONSTITUTIONAL, RESOURCE CAPACITY, AND ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?
28: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr: Has Governance Eclipsed Government?
29: Norma M. Riccucci: Revitalizing Human Resources Management
30: Lael R. Keiser: Representative Bureaucracy
Daniel R. Mullins & John L. Mikesell: Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management
32: Guy B. Adams & Danny L. Balfour: The Prospects for Revitalizing Ethics in a New Governance Era
33: Gary J. Miller & Andrew B. Whitford: Experimental Methods, Agency Incentives, and the Study of Bureaucratic Behavior
Index

About the Author

Robert F. Durant is Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where is also Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy. He has authored or co-authored national award-winning articles and books in the fields of Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Management, the Presidency, and Environmental and Natural Resources Policy. He has received the Charles H. Levine Award for Outstanding
Contributions to Public Administration research, teaching, and service. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of the American Bureaucracy is an integrative attempt to get scholars of bureaucracy who are working in different fields and traditions to talk to each other. The Handbook debates whether or not we have made any progress since the classic works of Max Weber. The volume convinces me the answer is "yes."
*Kenneth J. Meier, Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University *

The Oxford Handbook of the American Bureaucracy is an indispensable reference work for scholars of public administration and for graduate students. The essays cover the state of the art on a wide variety of topics including, among others, the historical development of the bureaucracy in the US, street level delegation, the paradoxes of performance measurement, public-NGO collaboration, statistical methods for discerning multi-level effects, controversies about appropriate models for understanding how bureaucracy actually works in a context demanding both accountability and problem-solving, and the various meanings of representative bureaucracy. The essays do not merely cover the extant literature. They bring fundamental controversies to the surface and clarify them analytically. The editor, Robert Durant, has organized this Handbook superbly and has written a broad-gauged and compelling introductory essay for it.
*Bert A. Rockman, Purdue University*