Organizations * Armies, Prisons, Schools * Organization Matters Operators * Circumstances * Beliefs * Interests * Culture Managers * Constraints * People * Compliance Executives * Turf * Strategies * Innovation Context * Congress * Presidents * Courts * National Differences Change * Problems * Rules * Markets * Bureaucracy and the Public Interest

About the Author

James Q. Wilson is James Collins professor of management and public policy at UCLA. Winner of the 1990, James Madison Award of the American Political Science Association, he is also the author of Moral Sense and Moral Judgement.

Reviews

"A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels."--Christian Science Monitor

"Immediately takes its place as the indispensable one-volume guide to American national administration."--Aron Wildavsky, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"May well be the best book now available on bureaucracy in America."--Paul Starr, The New Republic

"Wilson is a remarkably clear thinker. It is unlikely that anyone in the foreseeable future will master so much research about so many agencies at the government level."--Tom Peters, The Washingtonian

"Wilson is our Weber and this is his summa ... A sprightly, irreverent and profoundly serious inquiry as to how you make a nation work."--Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels."--Christian Science Monitor
"Immediately takes its place as the indispensable one-volume guide to American national administration."--Aron Wildavsky, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"May well be the best book now available on bureaucracy in America."--Paul Starr, The New Republic
"Wilson is a remarkably clear thinker. It is unlikely that anyone in the foreseeable future will master so much research about so many agencies at the government level."--Tom Peters, The Washingtonian
"Wilson is our Weber and this is his summa ... A sprightly, irreverent and profoundly serious inquiry as to how you make a nation work."--Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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