Author: Akhil GuptaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351102
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.
Author: Jack L. ChalkerRed Tape
Author: Herbert KaufmanPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815726619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Death, taxes, and red tape. The inevitable trio no one can escape. That wry sense of reality colors Herbert Kaufman's classic study of red tape, the bureaucratic phenomenon that all of us have encountered in some form—from the confounding tax form filled out annually to the maddeningly time-consuming wait at the driver's license bureau. The complaints about red tape, Kaufman concedes, are legion. It's messy, it takes too long, it lacks local knowledge, it is out of date, it makes insane demands, it increases costs, it slows progress. It is, in short, a burden and many times there is no measurable positive outcome. Kaufman takes us on an unblinking tour of the dismal landscape of red tape. But he also shows us another side of red tape, one we often forget. Red tape is how government protects us from tainted food, shoddy products, and unfair labor practices. It guarantees a social safety net for the elderly, the disabled, children, veterans, and victims of natural disasters. One person's red tape is another person's protection. This reissue is a Brookings Classic, a series of republished books for readers to revisit or discover, notable works by the Brookings Institution Press.
Author: National Performance Review (U.S.)Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge, and More Flubs from the Nation's Press
Author: Gloria CooperPublisher: TarcherPerigee
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Featuring selections from The Lower case, the best-read page of the Columbia Journalism Review, Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge gives the Fourth Estate the once-over and comes up with non-stop fun.
Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research
Author: Barry BozemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317460707
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This work includes a brief history of skyscrapers as well as chapters on elevators and communications, facades and facing, mechanical and electrical systems, forces of nature, and much more.
Red Tape and White Knuckles
Author: Lois PrycePublisher:
ISBN: 9781937747138
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
To most thirty-something women, walking across the street to get a skinny latte and the latest copy of heat in excruciating high heels is an all-terrain task in itself. But Lois Pryce isn't just any woman - nine to five and post-work white wine spritzers have never been her thing. Unafraid of a challenge - having already ridden her motorbike from Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America - she decided she could never be one to settle for a last minute package holiday in Viva Espana. So, she began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of.
The Death of Common Sense
Author: Philip K. HowardPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812982746
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowning—in law, lawsuits, and nearly endless red tape. Before acting or making a decision, we often abandon our best instincts. We pause, we worry, we equivocate, and then we divert our energy into trying to protect ourselves. Filled with one too many examples of bureaucratic overreach, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how we—and our country—can at last get back on track.
Author: Joan Lowery NixonBureaucracy and Red Tape
Author: Barry BozemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
For basic text/supplement use in Bureaucracy, Public Administration, Organization Theory, Policy Implementation, and American Government courses. Demonstrating our need to think more deeply about our dissatisfactions with bureaucracy, this proactive text combines original explanations of bureaucratic red tape with prescription and case examples challenging students to develop a deeper understanding of bureaucracy as a set of trade-offs among politics, accountability and efficiency. Fair-minded in approach, it distinguishes bureaucratic "normalities" from bureaucratic pathologies in the internal and inter-organizational management of organizations helping students discern the difference between which rules and regulations are reasonable accountability or coordination mechanisms, and which, in fact, can be labeled "red tape".
