books about: bureaucracy     books:     Bureaucracy      Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute ... Robert Higgs Oxford University Press, USA, 1989 Well researched classic This book is a well researched classic on the horrors of the state. Tediously footnoted and well organized, the book offers the concept of the "ratchet effect"- government taking advantage of (sometimes creating) "crisis" as an excuse to dramatically increase ...             Reinventing Government : How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector (Plume) David Osborne, Ted Gaebler Plume, 1993 Reinventing Government This is an excellent book that covers all of the facts about our old and new government laws in comparison to current events that occur within our society. Regulations and guidelines are also described about the Private and Public Sector and how they differ. It is ...             The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho James Ferguson University of Minnesota Press, 1994 A dose of realism Ferguson's study of development projects in Lesotho brings a much needed dose of reality to the subject of modernization and aid. While others might stress the need for appropriate technology or bog the reader down in economic formulae, Ferguson examines the ways in ...             The GE Work-Out : How to Implement GE's Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy & Attacking ... Dave Ulrich, Steve Kerr, ... McGraw-Hill, 2002 Sound advice for delivering speed, simplicity, and solutions 'Work-Out' is the famous organizational process that General Electric, the greatest industrial firm in the world, used to bust bureaucracy - fast. At its core, Work-Out is a simple, straightforward concept for cutting out bureaucracy and solving organizational ...             The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America Philip K. Howard Grand Central Publishing, 1996 Death of Common Sense Well-written and well-researched book that presents the frightening picture of the beast that law in America has become. The author provides good historical background for the reader to appreciate the insidious development of what has become our current laws, how ...             BUREAUCRACY (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB) LUDWIG VON MISES Liberty Fund Inc., 2007 Perceptive and Concise Bureaucracy is the clearest and most concise version of the calculation critique of socialism. This books is vastly easier to read that the original 1920 article on socialist calculation. It is far shorter and more focused than Human Action. It is also much shorter ...             More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. ... Walter E. Williams Hoover Institution Press, 1999 Extremely intelligent and funny This collection of Walter Williams' columns displays some of his best in teaching economics and in criticizing leftist social policies through logic and humor. In fact, only P.J. O'Rourke comes to mind in terms of producing such hilarious criticism of current social ...             Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications of Russell Sage Foundation) Michael Lipsky Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 1983 Street-level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers In this book, Lipsky examines the critical role of street-level bureaucrats in the policy-making and/or policy implementation process. The traditional model of public policy theory assumes that policy choices are made by the elected political executives and the ...             Administrative Law: Bureaucracy in a Democracy (3rd Edition) Daniel E. Hall Prentice Hall, 2005 The underlying theme of the book examines the relationship of administrative agencies to democracy, in particular, how the law attempts to keep daily practices of government agencies accountable. The book includes discussions of bureaucracy and democracy; agency discretion and the requirement of fairness; delegation; agency rulemaking, ...             Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It (Basic Books Classics) James Wilson Basic Books, 1991 Wonderfully written Wilson, as usual, writes amazingly well in this comprehensive book covering bureaucracies, how they operate, and why bureaucrats act the way they do. He discusses the different organizational features that persist across all bureaucracies, and why it is that once a ...             The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic Charles T. Goodsell CQ Press, 2003 ýI Hate Bureaucracy, I Love Bureaucratsý Syndrome So far, much has been written about the evils of bureaucracy, but less has been written about the accomplishments of bureaucracy. Generally, the message given by popular literature regarding government bureaucracy was one-sided and too far from completeness. In this ...             The Reinventor's Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government David Osborne, Peter Plastrik Jossey-Bass, 2000 One Of A Kind For most people government means bureaucracy. Not anymore. The Reinventor's Fieldbook lays out a new organization that will grab your imagination and focus it on performance. The book describes "how to" build a high performance government organization. It is filled ...             Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy, Fourth Edition, Revised USAF (Ret.) Maj Gen Perry M. Smith, USA (Ret.) Col. Daniel M. Gerstein Potomac Books Inc., 2007 up to date guide to thriving within a large organization I am the author of this book. When the new administration took office, it was time to update this book about how the Pentagon works, how to work with the Pentagon and how to work within the Pentagon. There is an enormous amount of misinformation about the Pentagon and ...             Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy Theodore Dalrymple Encounter Books, 2006 TD does it again. Theodore Dalrymple makes a convincing argument to show that almost everything we 'know' about opiate addiction is way off the mark. Drawing on his vast experience, he methodically debunks the myths we believe are true about the 'addict' and the 'addiction' itself, and ...             Improving Government Performance: An Owners Manual John J. Dilulio, Gerald Garvey, ... Brookings Institution Press, 1993          products you might be interested in search for books administration, administrative, depoliticization, entrepreneurial, organizational, pharmacological      geepe.com    web randomly chosen VHS: Seekers (2pc)