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This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
- Sales Rank: #687917 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University Alabama Press
- Published on: 2007-10-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .80" w x 5.50" l, .79 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
“Ostrom . . . does a magnificent job of laying out the crucial elements of the classic works in the field. . . . Strongly recommended.” — Choice
“Ostrom, who dwells on the crisis of confidence of identity that pervades public administration, . . . calls for divided and different authorities to limit and control each other. A significant and timely contribution.” — Library Journal
“[Ostrom’s] argument remains . . . convincing, elegant, and increasingly relevant to real administrative problems. . . . The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration stands as an enduring contribution to the study of administrative theory and practice.” — American Review of Public Administration
About the Author
Vincent Ostrom is Founding Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University. Barbara Allen is Professor of Political Science at Carleton College and the author of Harmonizing Earth with Heaven: Tocqueville on Covenant & the Democratic Revolution.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Bureaucracy and Democracy Dichotomy
By Tansu Demir
In this book, the public choice theorist V. Ostrom examines the intellectual crisis in American public administration that he believes has turned out following the political scandals such as Watergate.
The author dichotomizes the democratic administration and bureaucratic administration. Bureaucratic administration, originated with Weber and Wilson, is associated with a system of "good" administration that is hierarchically ordered in a system of graded ranks subject to political direction by heads of departments at the center of government (p. 24). The bureaucratic administration is assumed to produce efficient results and also makes the government responsible, as opposed to fragmented authority, in that it will be possible to show clearly who is the responsible when failures occurred. Democratic administration, according to Ostrom, is associated with fragmentation of authority and overlapping jurisdictions, and represents the opposite of bureaucratic administration based on unitary command of authority. To Ostrom, democratic administration, indulging fragmented authority and overlapping jurisdictions, is that what founding fathers of the United States deliberately envisioned. Ostrom believes that Wilsonian paradigm of bureaucratic administration has changed the nature of American public administration by leading to numerous reforms that aimed to strengthen the President and by overcoming "fragmented authority and overlapping jurisdictions" with the promise to "make the government more responsible and efficient in solving the problems of the society (i.e., war on poverty). Ostrom explains how the centralization of power in the Executive branch created unfortunate problems that have consumed the trust of citizens in government that divulges itself in the fact that half of the registered voters don't bother to voting any longer.
Ostrom attacks bureaucratic administration excellently in a way that I cannot counter-argue. However, I found his Simon interpretation irrelevant and distorted in that Ostrom shows Simon as if he was the first person who challenged bureaucratic administration-although students of Simon know very well Simon did not challenge bureaucratic administration but asserted that when principles (proverbs) of classical administrative theory contradict each other (for example, efficiency and unity of command principles) we are not given any guidelines for priority ranking, that is, Simon proposed a comprehensive administrative theory. However, it was nice to hear a different interpretation of Simon!
The point made by Ostrom is that centralization or concentration of power does not always produce "efficient" results, "efficiency" changes from one situation to another. Also, Ostrom attacks the false logic of bureaucratic administration, oriented toward efficiency, with the reason that it is interested only in "supply side" at the expense and ignorance of "demand side". The emphasis, he makes, is that each decision structure has advantages and disadvantages and when determining one of the decision structures we must calculate and weigh these advantages and disadvantages.
For Ostrom, concentrating of power in the hand of the Executive branch and dis-empowering the other branches beget what today we call "symbolic politics": "The Executive offices of the President would then become the `efficient' part of the government; the Congress, the courts, the statehouses, and the other centers of authority would become the `dignified' parts of government relieved of their other burdens of work so that they can devote themselves largely to the ceremonial functions of government" (p. 126). Ostrom reminds us the self-fulfilling prophecy of Rousseau "One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they" (p. 146).
In the final part of the book, Ostrom explains the guidelines (say theoretical framework) that will "help" us determine the appropriate decision structures under specific circumstances.
Overall, this book is great in its challenge to bureaucratic administration, however I don't believe that the alternative to bureaucratic administration is "public choice" under the name of democratic administration. Highly recommended classic.
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Five Stars
By Stephen R. Rolandi
Terrific! Thank you.
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