A01=Ezra N. Suleiman
Author_Ezra N. Suleiman
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Big government
Brookings Institution
Bureaucracy
Bureaucrat
Business ethics
Cabinet reshuffle
Capitalism
Career
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Centre-right politics
Citizens (Spanish political party)
Civil service
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
Coalition government
Cohabitation (government)
Communitarianism
Contemporary society
Countervailing power
Decentralization
Democracy
Democratic consolidation
Developmental state
Devolution
Disenchantment
Distrust
Economic efficiency
Economic planning
Elite
Employment
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Governance
Hollowing Out
Incrementalism
Indicative planning
Institution
Iron law of oligarchy
James Burnham
Jimmy Carter
Liberalism
Liberalization
Merit system
Military dictatorship
Morihiro Hosokawa
Motion of no confidence
Nationalization
New class
New Federalism
New Nationalism
New Public Administration
New public management
Original intent
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Philip K. Howard
Political Man
Political party
Politician
Politics
Politics-administration dichotomy
Politique
Private sector
Privatization
Progressivism in the United States
Public administration
Public expenditure
Red tape
Statism
Tax
Tax reform
The Grace Commission
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Product details
- ISBN 9780691122519
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the source of democracy's ills. This is a book as much about good governance as it is about bureaucratic organizations. Suleiman asks: Is democratic governance hindered without an effective instrument in the hands of the legitimately elected political leadership? Is a professional bureaucracy required for developing but not for maintaining a democratic state? Why has a reform movement arisen in recent years championing the gradual dismantling of bureaucracy, and what are the consequences? Suleiman undertakes a comparative analysis of the drive toward a civil service grounded in the New Public Management. He argues that "government reinvention" has limited bureaucracy's capacity to adequately serve the public good.
All bureaucracies have been under political pressure in recent years to reduce not only their size but also their effectiveness, and all have experienced growing deprofessionalism and politicization. He compares the impact of this evolution in both democratic societies and societies struggling to consolidate democratic institutions. Dismantling Democratic States cautions that our failure to acknowledge the role of an effective bureaucracy in building and preserving democratic political systems threatens the survival of democracy itself.
Ezra Suleiman is IBM Professor of International Studies, Professor of Politics, and Director of the European Studies Program at Princeton University. He is the author or coauthor of over ten books in comparative politics.
