The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Contributors; Preface; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1: Robert F. Durant: A Heritage Made Our Own; PART II RECONCEPTUALIZING THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 2: David Brian Robertson: Historical Institutionalism, Political Development, and the Study of American Bureaucracy; 3: Kimberley Johnson: The 'First New Federalism' and the Development of the Administrative State, 1883-1929; 4: Hindy Lauer Schachter: A Gendered Legacy? The Progressive Reform Era Revisited; 5: David H. Rosenbloom: Reevaluating Executive-Centered Public Administrative Theory; 6: Jonathan Koppell: Metaphors and the Development of American Bureaucracy; 7: Robert F. Durant: Herbert Hoover's Revenge: Politics, Policy, and Administrative Reform Movements; PART III RETHINKING RATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 8: B. Dan Wood: Agency Theory and the Bureaucracy; 9: Amy B. Zegart: Agency Design and Evolution; 10: Hal G. Rainey: Goal Ambiguity and the Study of American Bureaucracy; 11: Steven Maynard-Moody & Shannon Portillo: Street-Level Bureaucracy Theory; 12: Donald P. Moynihan: The Promises and Paradoxes of Performance-Based Bureaucracy; 13: Anne M. Khademian: Leading Through Cultural Change; 14: Ralph P. Hummel & Camilla Stivers: Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy; PART IV REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY?; 15: H. George Frederickson & Edmund C. Stazyk: Myths, Markets, and the 'Visible Hand' of American Bureaucracy; 16: Michael McGuire & Robert Agranoff: Networking in the Shadow of Bureaucracy; 17: Jocelyn M. Johnston & Barbara S. Romzek: The Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting; 18: Wolfgang Bielefeld, James L. Perry, & Ann Marie Thomson: 18. Reluctant Partners? Nonprofit Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship, and Leveraged Volunteerism; 19: Beryl A. Radin & Paul Posner: Policy Tools, Mandates, and Intergovernmental Relations; 20: Sharon L. Caudle: Promises, Perils, and

The Oxford Handbook of the American Bureaucracy is an integrative attempt to get scholars of bureaucracy who are working in different fields and traditions to talk to each other. The Handbook debates whether or not we have made any progress since the classic works of Max Weber. The volume convinces me the answer is "yes." Kenneth J. Meier, Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University The Oxford Handbook of the American Bureaucracy is an indispensable reference work for scholars of public administration and for graduate students. The essays cover the state of the art on a wide variety of topics including, among others, the historical development of the bureaucracy in the US, street level delegation, the paradoxes of performance measurement, public-NGO collaboration, statistical methods for discerning multi-level effects, controversies about appropriate models for understanding how bureaucracy actually works in a context demanding both accountability and problem-solving, and the various meanings of representative bureaucracy. The essays do not merely cover the extant literature. They bring fundamental controversies to the surface and clarify them analytically. The editor, Robert Durant, has organized this Handbook superbly and has written a broad-gauged and compelling introductory essay for it. Bert A. Rockman, Purdue University