书目名称 | Representative Bureaucracy and Performance |
副标题 | Public Service Trans |
编辑 | Sergio Fernandez |
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概述 | Elevates the level of debate surrounding affirmative action through rigorous empirical analysis of how the demographics of public organizations affect governmental performance.Provides compelling evid |
丛书名称 | Executive Politics and Governance |
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描述 | ".Representative Bureaucracy and Performance: Public Service Transformation in South Africa. is a first-rate blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis of one of the major transitions in modern governance. Fernandez makes a major theoretical contribution to the literature on representative bureaucracy in demonstrating how descriptive representation translates into both active representation and better performance. His discussion of the crucial role of language and communication brings new insight to the literature on public administration and democracy.".—Kenneth Meier, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, American University."This study of public sector transformation goes beyond the descriptive qualitative research largely found in South African public administration historiography by undertaking sophisticated quantitative analysis to show that representation of previously historically disadvantaged groups, under certain circumstances, can improve the performance of public organizations. This is an excellent contribution, not only to public administration scholarship in South Africa, but also to the sparse literature on public organizations in developing countries. The book sh |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | representative bureaucracy; bureaucracy; transformation; affirmative action; performance; apartheid; capac |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32134-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-32136-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-32134-5Series ISSN 2946-367X Series E-ISSN 2946-3688 |
issn_series | 2946-367X |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |