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Drawing upon evidence from recent experiments in energy policy making in Canada, this book explores the strategic consequences of bureaucratic change, focussing on the technical and political roles of bureaucrats in determining large-scale policy outcomes.

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“This is an extremely sensitive and thorough analysis of a major Canadian program in a vital policy area of regional and global interest as well as of national interest. It also offers creative and valuable synthesis in that it connects two important and excessively walled-off subfields—organization theory and public policy analysis. The book is a rare demonstration of how theoretical sophistication and the mastery of case intricacies can be joined.”—Allan Lerner, University of Illinois at Chicago

Table of Contents
Tables and figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Expertise and structure; 2. Strategy, structure, and politics; 3. The evolution of a problem and the demand for new structures; 4. Responding to crisis: the National Energy Program; 5. Strategies of negotiation and organizational structure; 6. Structure, institutionalization, and change; 7. Integrating hierarchies, policies, and error; 8. Strategies of policy transformation and problems of consolidation in public bureaucracy; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Designing Bureaucracies Institutional Capacity

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 January 1995
      ISBN-13 9780804722810
      978-0804722810
      ISBN-10 0804722811
      Also in:
      Political structure and processes

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing upon evidence from recent experiments in energy policy making in Canada, this book explores the strategic consequences of bureaucratic change, focussing on the technical and political roles of bureaucrats in determining large-scale policy outcomes.

      Trade Review
      “This is an extremely sensitive and thorough analysis of a major Canadian program in a vital policy area of regional and global interest as well as of national interest. It also offers creative and valuable synthesis in that it connects two important and excessively walled-off subfields—organization theory and public policy analysis. The book is a rare demonstration of how theoretical sophistication and the mastery of case intricacies can be joined.”—Allan Lerner, University of Illinois at Chicago

      Table of Contents
      Tables and figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Expertise and structure; 2. Strategy, structure, and politics; 3. The evolution of a problem and the demand for new structures; 4. Responding to crisis: the National Energy Program; 5. Strategies of negotiation and organizational structure; 6. Structure, institutionalization, and change; 7. Integrating hierarchies, policies, and error; 8. Strategies of policy transformation and problems of consolidation in public bureaucracy; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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