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    Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It by James Q. Wilson

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    Bureaucracy is the classic study of the way American government agencies work and how they can be made to work better. Examining a wide range of bureaucracies, including the Army, the FBI, the FCC, and the Social Security Administration, James Q. Wilson provides the first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of what government agencies do, why they function as they do, and how they might become more responsible and effective. With a new introduction by the author.

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    A leading expert explains what government bureaucracies do and why they behave the way they do.

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    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 government level.

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    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.

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    August 19, 2001: Really cuts through the mysteries of government worker behavior. They act they way they do because of the reward system WE impose on them. The most useful insight I brought away from this book was that the greatest enemy of a bureaucrat is not Congress, is not Public Opinion, but rather ANOTHER BUREAUCRAT! With this insight, one sees that their world is shaped more by turf battles than any position we voters may take. Decent read for such an archtypically dry subject too.