The Public Administration Theory Primer

Machine generated contents note: Preface — Chapter 1 Introduction: The Possibilities of Theory — Why Do We Need Theory in Public Administration? — The Uses of Theory — Is a Useful and Reliable Public Administration Theory Possible? — Some Contemporary Theories of Public Administration — Notes — Chapter 2 Theories of Political Control of Bureaucracy — Introduction: What Are Theories of Control of Bureaucracy? — The Difference Between Politics and Administration — Are Bureaucracies Out of Control? — Agency Theory — Conclusions — Summary — Chapter 3 Theories of Bureaucratic Politics — Introduction: What Are Theories of Bureaucratic Politics? — Administrative Theory as Political Theory — Allison’s Paradigm of Bureaucratic Politics — Politics, Power, and Organization — Networks and Bureaucratic Politics — Representative Bureaucracy — Conclusions — Summary — Chapter 4 Public Institutional Theory — Institutional Theory — The Basic Idea — From Organizations to Institutions — Hierarchy — Alternatives to Hierarchy — Comparing Institutional Forms — High-Reliability Systems — Low-Reliability Systems and Their Improvement — System Fragmentation — Garbage Cans and Rent Seeking — The Diffusion of Innovation — Conclusions — Summary — Chapter 5 Theories of Public Management — Introduction: Developments in Public Management Theory — Traditional Management Theory Thrust Forward — Leadership as Public Management — Managing by Contract — Governance — Conclusions — Summary — Chapter 6 Postmodern Theory — Organizational Humanism and Postpositivism — Postmodern Perspectives in Public Administration — Looking for Postmodern Public Administration Theory — Conclusions: Fading Away or Still Useful as a Theory? — Summary — Notes — Chapter 7 Decision Theory — Introduction — The Evolution of Decision Theory — Revisiting the Logic of Consequences — Bounded Decision Rationality and the Logic of Appropriateness — Conclusions — Summary — Chapter 8 Rational Choice Theory and Irrational Behavior — Introduction: What Is Rational Choice Theory? — The Rational, Self-Maximizing Bureaucrat — Trust and the Irrational Bureaucrat — The Self-Maximizing Citizen and the Tiebout Hypothesis — Rational Choice as the New Orthodoxy — Conclusions — Summary — Notes –]Chapter 9 Theories of Governance — Introduction: Public Administration’s Need for a Theory of Governance — A New Model of Governance> — Governance as the New Public Management — Governance as a Unifying Framework for Public Administration? — Collaborative Governance Theory — Conclusions — Summary — Chapter 10 Conclusion: A Bright Future for Theory? — Theories of Political Control of Bureaucracy — Theories of Bureaucratic Politics — Public Institutional Theory — Theories of Public Management — Postmodern Theory — Decision Theory — Rational Choice Theory and Irrational Behavior — Theories of Governance — Theory in Public Administration — References — Index