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Politics of representative bureaucracy : power, legitimacy and performance / edited by B. Guy Peters, Patrick von Maravić and Eckhard Schröter. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2015. - vi, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

1. Delivering Public Services in Multiethnic Societies—The Challenge of Representativeness B. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić 2. The Comparative Study of Representative Bureaucracy—An Analytical Framework B. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić 3. The “Performance Claim” of Representative Bureaucracy—Does Organization Matter? Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić 4. Reconsidering Political and Bureaucratic Representation in Modern Government Patrick von Maravić and B. Guy Peters 5. Representative Bureaucracy in a Cross-national Context: Politics, Identity, Structure and Discretion Kenneth J. Meier and Tabitha S.M. Morton 6. Political Patronage, Machine Politics and Ethnic Representativeness in the Public Sector B. Guy Peters 7. Migration and Urban Governance—Challenges for Democratic Legitimacy? Tassilo Herrschel 9. Civic Leadership, and Local Politics in Multi-Cultural Cities Robin Hambleton 10. From Plutocracy to Diversity. The (De-)Construction of Representative Bureaucracy Theory Bas van Gool

ISBN: 9780857936004 085793600X

LCCN: 2014950728

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Bureaucracy.
Representative government and representation.
Democracy.

Dewey Class. No.: 351 PET