Change in Public Bureaucracies

by Marshall W. Meyer

Book Overview

This book examines in detail the process of change in 240 city, county and state public bureaucracies responsible for local finance administration. Using the longitudinal method of analysis, the data show organizational structures to be much less stable than conventional stereotypes have suggested. Variables such as organizational leadership, claims to domain, and survival (as opposed to replacement or reorganization) were found to mediate environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521066301
• ISBN13: 9780521066303
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"