Richardson offers a careful analysis of US federal agencies examining the interaction between executive and legislative branches of government, combining Austri

Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that market failures are common, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protec

The call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. E

This book argues that bureaucracies can contribute to stability and economic development, if they are insulated from unstable democratic politics. The book will

"Like it or not, all of us who live in modern society are organization men and women. We tend to be caught in the traditional patterns of dominance and subordin