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Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Neil Garston

    1. California State University, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 34)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Study of Bureaucracy

    1. The Study of Bureaucracy

      • Neil Garston
      Pages 1-22

  3. The Nature of Bureaucracy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Behavior of Corporate Bureaucrats

      • Rowena A. Pecchenino
      Pages 25-37

    3. Bureaucracy and Class in Marxism

      • Paresh Chattopadhyay
      Pages 39-59

    4. The Emergence and Functions of Managerial and Clerical Personnel in Marx’s Capital

      • Gérard Duménil, Dominique Lévy
      Pages 61-81

    5. An Institutionalist Theory of Bureaucracy: Organizations and Technology

      • Thomas R. De Gregori, Randal J. Thompson, Deborah Shepherd
      Pages 83-99

  4. The Internal Functioning of Bureaucracy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. A Model of Corporate Organizational Structure

      • Martin J. Beckmann
      Pages 103-112

    3. Public Sector Bureaucracy: The Neoclassical Perspective

      • P. M. Jackson
      Pages 113-130

    4. Bureaucracy/ Technocracy, Market Structure, and Behavior: An Institutionalist’s View

      • John R. Munkirs
      Pages 131-151

  5. Bureaucracy and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. The Economic Functions of Clerical and Managerial Personnel: A Historical Perspective

      • Gérard Duménil, Dominique Lévy
      Pages 155-187

    3. Bureaucracy and Society: An Institutionalist Perspective

      • Randal Joy Thompson
      Pages 189-203

    4. Communist Bureaucrats and the Transition to the Market Economy

      • Adam M. Pilarski
      Pages 205-221

    5. Paradigms, Insights, and Problems

      • Neil Garston
      Pages 223-235

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 237-245
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Keywords

About this book

The study of bureaucracy must include certain key questions: what are bureaucrats and bureaucracies; why do they exist and what are their functions; how do they behave; how much power do they possess; what is their impact on efficiency and production; and how do they affect society?
This book contains analyses of all these issues, done by a variety of economists of differing backgrounds, approaches and opinions, broadly categorized under the labels Neoclassical, Institutionalist, and Marxist, although there are overlaps and correspondences that cross ideological and/or paradigmal boundaries.
In this book the labels are employed as a guide to the reader with a preference for one approach over the others, and as an indication of how chapters in different sections are related in their approaches.

Reviews

`... this is really an interesting and worthwhile reading book ... and I can only recommend it to every reader who wants to know something about bureaucracy.'
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 152:3 (1996)

Editors and Affiliations

  • California State University, Los Angeles, USA

    Neil Garston

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bureaucracy: Three Paradigms

  • Editors: Neil Garston

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1396-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9377-1Published: 31 December 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4612-1Published: 28 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1396-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 245

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Political Science

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