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| Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Bureaucracies as Policymaking Organizations | |
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| The Contours of Public Bureaucracy | |
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| Accountability and Performance in Public Bureaucracies | |
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| Accountability and its Many Faces | |
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| The Evolution of Accountability | |
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| The Limits of Accountability | |
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| The Push for Performance | |
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| The Government Performance and Results Act | |
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| The Program Assessment Rating Tool | |
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| Agency Reputations in the Real World | |
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| Accountability and Performance: Theories and Applications | |
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| Bureaucratic Reasoning | |
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| The Bounded Rationality Model | |
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| Simplified Problem Solving | |
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| Problem Disaggregation | |
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| Standard Operating Procedures | |
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| Sunk Costs | |
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| Simulations and Tests | |
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| Evidence-Based Research | |
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| Implications for Policy Analysis | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Empathy and Commitment | |
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| Representative Bureaucracy | |
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| Money as a Motivator | |
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| Attitudes toward Risk | |
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| Organizational Advancement | |
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| Promoting Organizational Cohesion | |
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| Consequences of Bounded Rationality | |
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| A Narrow Search | |
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| Problem Disaggregation | |
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| Approximations | |
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| Standard Operating Procedures | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Bureaucracy's Bosses | |
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| Delegation, Adverse Selection, and Moral Hazard | |
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| Why Bureaucracy? | |
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| Why Delegation Varies | |
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| Implementing Child Care Legislation | |
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| Managing Delegation | |
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| Presidential Power | |
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| Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy | |
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| Judicial Review | |
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| Principal-Agent Theory and the Bureaucracy's Clients | |
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| Principals and Principles | |
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| The Bureaucracy's Clients | |
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| The Benefits, Costs, and Politics of Public Policy | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Iron Triangles | |
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| The Venues of Client Participation | |
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| The Notice and Comment Process | |
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| Advisory Committees and Other Venues of Collaboration | |
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| Political Intervention | |
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| Client Participation and the Internet | |
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| Client Influence on Bureaucratic Policymaking | |
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| Business Organizations | |
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| Public Interest Groups | |
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| State and Local Governments | |
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| Clients and the Institutions of Government | |
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| Client Participation: Three Lessons and Beyond | |
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| Who Participates Varies | |
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| Venues Vary | |
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| Influence Varies | |
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| Bureaucratic Networks | |
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| Networks versus Hierarchies | |
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| Network Theory | |
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| The Tools Approach | |
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| Types of Bureaucratic Networks | |
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| Intergovernmental Relationships | |
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| Environmental Protection | |
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| Health Policy | |
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| Race to the Top in Education | |
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| Welfare Reform | |
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| Public-Private Partnerships | |
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| Contracting Out | |
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| Partnerships without Contracts | |
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| Interagency Networks | |
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| The Cabinet | |
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| Office of Management and Budget | |
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| Interagency Coordination | |
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| Czars | |
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| Network Effectiveness | |
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| The Effectiveness of Policy Tools | |
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| Grants-in-Aid | |
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| Regulation | |
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| Information | |
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| Networks and Public Bureaucracy | |
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| The Politics of Disaster Management | |
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| The Gulf of Mexico: Two Crises with Precedent | |
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| Hurricane Katrina | |
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| FEMA's Evolution | |
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| Katrina Strikes | |
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| Applying the Theories | |
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| The Coast Guard and Other Success Stories | |
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| The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill | |
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| Bounded Rationality on the Deepwater Horizon | |
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| Networks and Oil Exploration | |
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| The Minerals Management Service: A Problematic Principal | |
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| Of Booms, Berms, and Client Politics | |
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| September 11, 2001: A Crisis without Precedent | |
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| The First Response | |
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| Bureaucracy after 9/11 | |
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| The Iraq War and the Intelligence Community | |
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| Bureaucratic Theories and the Politics of Homeland Security | |
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| Avian Influenza: A Crisis in the Making? | |
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| National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza | |
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| Using the Theories to Forecast | |
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| Evaluating Bureaucracy in Light of the Theories | |
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| Why are Some Bureaucracies Better than Others? | |
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| Rating the Performance of Agencies | |
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| Explaining Variations in Performance | |
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| Tasks | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Political Support | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Alternative Rating Systems | |
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| Bureaucracy in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Web Resources | |
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| Index | |