Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies

The readings in Representative Bureaucracy provide an efficient guide to the settled knowledge and emerging issues regarding policy and research on democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative of the people they ostensibly serve. The book includes both classic and cutting-edge works and presents a contemporary model for analyzing representative bureaucracy -- focusing on the linkages between social origins, life experiences, attitudes, and administrators' decision making. The selections address many of the leading concerns of contemporary politics, including diversity and equal opportunity policy, democratic control of administration, administrative performance, and "reinventing government." Many of the field's most cited works are included in this comprehensive yet affordable volume. Each chapter starts with an introductory summary of the key questions under consideration and concludes with discussion questions. The book makes the field of representative bureaucracy comprehensively and efficiently accessible to students, scholars, and reflective public managers. It serves as an essential reader for courses on bureaucracy, public administration, or human resource management in the public sector. Book jacket.