Politics of Bureaucracy

This fifth edition is a comprehensive, comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world. It offers an extensive, documented, comparative analysis stressing the effects of politics and organized interests on bureaucracy. T his edition contains a new chapter on administrative reform, more material on administration in developing countries, more coverage of the European Union and more discussion of international bureaucracies. Revision has taking into account the wealth of literature that has emerged in recent years on the topic.