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The success or failure of empires, nation-states, and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. In this provocative and timely volume, editor Ali Farazmand examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats and how they affect modern governance. This book is organized around the major themes of professionalism, bureaucracy, governance, and the relationship between career bureaucrats/higher civil servants and political appointees/politicians under presidential and parliamentary systems. After introducing the basic elements of bureaucracies in Part I, the book discusses the relations between bureaucrats and politicians in presidential systems in Part II as well as in parliamentary systems in Part III. This original and up-to-date book will fill a gap in the literature on the relationship between bureaucrats and politicians in modern governance and public administration. It can be used as a primary or supplementary text at the undergraduate and graduate level for those interested in public administration, comparative public policy, political science, and government.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Professionalism, Bureaucracy, And Modern Governance
• Coups and Crashes
• Lessons for Public Administration
• Professionalism, Bureaucracy, and Modern Governance
• A Comparative Analysis
• Professionalism in Bureaucracy
• Some Comparisons Based on the Indian Case
• The US Civil Service 1883-1993 (RIP)
• Political Power and the Centrality of Administration
• Part 2 Bureaucrats And Politicians In Presidential Systems
• The US Constitutional Separation of Powers and Federal Administration
• Politics and Bureaucracy
• Their Impact on Professionalism
• The Pendleton Act of 1883 and Professionalism in the US Public Service
• Transients and Careerists in Latin America
• Part 3 Bureaucrats And Politicians In Parliamentary Systems
• Bureaucrats and Political Appointees in European Democracies
• Who Is Who and Does It Make Any Difference?
• Getting On in Government
• Political Priorities and Professional Civil Servants
• Part 4 The State Of The Current State
• 'Honey, I Shrank the State'

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A lively and well-organized collection with contributions from a dozen scholars of public administration, this book explores the relations between politicians and bureaucrats, bureaucratic professionalism, and the differences between parliamentary and presidential systems. These themes are explored comparatively and historically by well-known scholars. Most of the pieces are timely and provocative; they grapple with the politics/administration relationship in modern states including the US, Great Britain, India, and some Latin American countries. Discussions of downsizing, market models for governments, "managerialism," and professionalism are intellectually stimulating. As with any collection, focus on the announced themes varies in intensity from article to article. There is a tendency to lump all professionals who are civil servants into one general category. Although some of the pieces refer to some specialization, the collection might have been more interesting had it dealt, say, with the relationship of scientists to state bureaucracies in comparative perspective; but this is a minor point. Overall, this excellent volume is enthusiastically recommended for every library with a public administration and comparative government collection. E. Lewis; New College of the University of South Florida