Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It
The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better — the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)


In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they operate the way they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. It is the essential guide to understanding how American government works.
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Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It
The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better — the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)


In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they operate the way they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. It is the essential guide to understanding how American government works.
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Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It

Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It

by James Q. Wilson
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It

Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It

by James Q. Wilson

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The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better — the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist)


In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they operate the way they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. It is the essential guide to understanding how American government works.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465007851
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 01/30/1991
Series: Basic Books Classics Series
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.38(d)
Lexile: 1460L (what's this?)

About the Author

James Q. Wilson (1931-2012) was a professor at Harvard, UCLA, and Pepperdine University. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003, among numerous other honors. He is also the author of Moral Sense and Moral Judgement, among many other books.

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Martha Derthick

"The synthesis is shrewd and creative. The prose is uncommonly swift. The fresh insights are abundant and compelling."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Wilson is our Weber and this is his summa ...a sprightly, irreverent, and profoundly serious inquiry as to how you make a nation work."

Tom Peters

"Wilson is a remarkably clear thinker. It is unlikely that anyone in the foreseeable future will master so much research about so many agencies at government level."

R. Cort Kirkwood

"A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels."

Aaron Wildavsky

"Immediately takes its place as the indispensable one-volume guide to American national administration."

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