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seeks to understand a decision-making process that affects the lives of virtually allAmericans.Keywords: budgeting, fiscal management, governmental accounting, nonprofitmanagement, public administration, public management, textbookBUREAUCRACYBeyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy. Mitchell,William C., and Simmons, Randy T. CO: Westview Press, 1994.http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&wauth=William+C.+Mitchell&siteID=PmFI5OlCKw4-sk2TiRV5Hj7OzgzWFnpTjwTraditional public policy and welfare economics have held that "market failures" arecommon, requiring the intervention of government in order to serve and protect thepublic good. In Beyond Politics, William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons carefullyscrutinize this traditional view through the modern theory of public choice. The authorsenlighten the relationship of government and markets by emphasizing the actual ratherthan the ideal workings of governments and by reuniting the insights of economics withthose of political science.Keywords: bureaucracy, public administration, public affairs, textbookBreaking through Bureaucracy: A New Vision for Managing in Government.Barzelay, Michael, and Babak, Armajani J. C.A.: University of California Press, 1992.http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/a256fe3a72c65f51a19afeb4da09e526.htmlThis book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the systemcan't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poorperformance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucraticparadigm--a theory built on such notions as central control, economy and efficiency, andrigid adherence to rules.Keywords: bureaucracy, public administration, public affairs, textbookBureaucracy and Red Tape. Bozeman, Barry. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999.http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/a256fe3a72c65f51a19afeb4da09e526.htmlDemonstrating our need to think more deeply about our dissatisfactions with bureaucracy,372