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The Science of Bureaucracy
Author | : David Demortain |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262537940 |
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How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived; how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA. Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and institutionalization of the risk assessment–risk management framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability, and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the 1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.
Politics Policy and Organizations
Author | : George A. Krause,Kenneth J. Meier |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-12-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0472024043 |
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This groundbreaking work provides a new and more accurate guide to the interactions of bureaucracies with other political institutions and the public at large."--Jacket.
The Science of Bureaucracy
Author | : David Demortain |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262356688 |
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How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived; how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA. Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and institutionalization of the risk assessment–risk management framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability, and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the 1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.
Politics Policy and Organizations
Author | : George A. Krause,Kenneth J. Meier |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2009-12-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780472024049 |
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The bureaucracy is the fourth branch of government, often receiving attention in times of emergency or when it is the object of criticism from the media or politicians. Less understood is how bureaucratic institutions function in a democracy, both from an organizational perspective and as institutional participants within the political arena. Drawing on rational choice approaches, computationally intensive data and modeling techniques, and systematic empirical inquiry, this original collection of essays highlights the important role bureaucracies play in shaping public policy-making. The editors of and contributors to this volume demonstrate not only the constraints political officials face in harnessing the bureaucracy but, more important, how bureaucracies function as organizational entities in diverse contexts. George A. Krause is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina. Kenneth J. Meier is Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University.
Bureaucracy
Author | : James Q. Wilson |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781541646254 |
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The classic book on the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better -- the "masterwork" of political scientist James Q. Wilson (The Economist) In Bureaucracy, the distinguished scholar James Q. Wilson examines a wide range of bureaucracies, including the US Army, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, providing the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they operate the way they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. It is the essential guide to understanding how American government works.
Bureaucracy
Author | : Martin Albrow |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1970-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781349009169 |
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Martin Albrow, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association Martin Albrow, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association
Bureaucracy in a Democratic State
Author | : Kenneth J. Meier,Laurence J. O'Toole |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2006-09-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0801883563 |
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Bureaucrats Politics and the Environment
Author | : Richard Waterman,Amelia A. Rouse,Robert Wright |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780822972518 |
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An informative case study of how bureaucrats establish and enforce policy and law. By focusing on personnel from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New Mexico Environment Department "Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment" puts a face on bureaucracy and provides an explanation for its actions.