TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moffitt,Susan L.
TI  - Making policy public: participatory bureaucracy in American democracy 
SN  - 9781107588141 (ebook)
AV  - JK468.P64 M64 2014
U1  - 320.60973 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political planning
KW  - United States
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Citizens' advisory committees
KW  - Government accountability
KW  - Transparency in government
KW  - Education and state
KW  - Pharmaceutical policy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Portals of democracy in American bureaucracy -- 2. Participatory bureaucracy in practice -- 3. The Development of Public Committees -- 4. Making educational performance public: reporting on the progress of education -- 5. Private knowledge for public problems: regulating pharmaceutical information -- 6. Setting the public agenda -- 7. Deliberate participation -- 8. The impact of public advice -- 9. Participatory bureaucracy in American democracy
N2  - This book challenges the conventional wisdom that government bureaucrats inevitably seek secrecy and demonstrates how and when participatory bureaucracy manages the enduring tension between bureaucratic administration and democratic accountability. Looking closely at federal level public participation in pharmaceutical regulation and educational assessments within the context of the vast system of American federal advisory committees, this book demonstrates that participatory bureaucracy supports bureaucratic administration in ways consistent with democratic accountability when it focuses on complex tasks and engages diverse expertise. In these conditions, public participation can help produce better policy outcomes, such as safer prescription drugs. Instead of bureaucracy's opposite or alternative, public participation can work as its complement
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107588141
ER  -