The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy

One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges, choices, and opportunities this dilemma poses for governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives, is methodologically diverse, and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading scholars think it should go in the future.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.

General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics : George C. Edwards III

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
About the Contributors	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction
A Heritage Made Our Own	p. 3
Reconceptualizing the History of American Bureaucracy?
Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy	p. 25
The "First New Federalism" and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929	p. 52
A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform Era Revisited
Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public Administrative Theory	p. 101
Metaphors and the Development of American Bureaucracy	p. 128
Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and Administrative Reform Movements	p. 151
Rethinking Rationality in American Bureaucracy?
Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy	p. 181
Agency Design and Evolution	p. 207
Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American Bureaucracy	p. 231
Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory	p. 252
The Promises and Paradoxes of Performance-Based Bureaucracy	p. 278
Leading through Cultural Change	p. 303
Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy	p. 324
Redrawing the Boundaries of American Bureaucracy?
Myths, Markets, and the Visible Hand of American Bureaucracy	p. 349
Networking in the Shadow of Bureaucracy	p. 372
The Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting	p. 396
Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leveraged Volunteerism	p. 421
Policy Tools, Mandates, and Intergovernmental Relations	p. 447
Promises, Perils, and Performance of Netcentric Bureaucracy	p. 472
Multilevel Methods in the Study of Bureaucracy	p. 497
Recalibrating Politics, Responsiveness, and Accountability in American Bureaucracy?
Legislative Delegation of Authority to Bureaucratic Agencies	p. 521
"Presidentializing" the Bureaucracy	p. 545
Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Judicial Review	p. 569
Interest Groups, Rulemaking, and American Bureaucracy	p. 590
Policymaking, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Overhead Democracy	p. 612
Choice-Theoretic Approaches to Bureaucratic Structure	p. 638
Revitalizing the Constitutional, Resource Capacity, and Ethical Foundations of American Bureaucracy?
Has Governance Eclipsed Government?	p. 669
Revitalizing Human Resources Management	p. 691
Representative Bureaucracy	p. 714
Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management	p. 738
The Prospects for Revitalizing Ethics in a New Governance Era	p. 766
Experimental Methods, Agency Incentives, and the Study of Bureaucratic Behavior	p. 786
Name Index	p. 811
Subject Index	p. 830
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