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Taming the Bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies - Princeton Legacy Library 3560 by William T. Gormley Details

Americans are just emerging from one of the great eras of reform in our era of history in which we tried to control public bureaucracies through representation of interests, due…

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Americans are just emerging from one of the great eras of reform in our era of history in which we tried to control public bureaucracies through representation of interests, due process, management, policy analysis, federalism and supervision. In fact, the United States underwent an institutional reorganization and emerged with a weaker and less independent bureaucracy. In a book that will concern not only public administration professionals but also US government students in general, William Gormley examines the results of reform efforts in the 1970s and 1980s and seeks to understand why, despite a staggering number of these efforts, we are still dissatisfied with the results.

Gormley writes: "The American bureaucracy is besieged and confined." "Unfortunately, critics of the bureaucracy are equally capable of making mistakes." The author explains our position by analyzing a range of controls ranging from motivation to forcedness. Motivational controls - such as advocacy, environmental impact statements and freedom of information - are more flexible, while coercive controls - such as legislative veto, executive orders, and judicial seizure of state institutions - are the most rigid.

While Gormley recommends that controls be designed for both issues and bureaucracies, he explains that forced interventions (or muscle) often generate new bureaucratic diseases without eliminating old diseases. In contrast, incentive controls (or prayers) activate the bureaucracy without specifying a precise response hastily.

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