Christian Science Monitor
"A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels."
"The synthesis is shrewd and creative. The prose is uncommonly swift. The fresh insights are abundant and compelling."
"A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels."
"Immediately takes its place as the indispensable one-volume guide to American national administration."
Book Description
A leading expert explains what government bureaucracies do and why they behave the way they do.
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It ANNOTATION
A leading expert explains what government bureaucracies do and why they behave the way they do.
FROM THE CRITICS
Tom Peters
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.
Martha Derthick
The synthesis is shrewd and creative. The prose is uncommonly swift. The fresh insights are abundant and compelling.
Aaron Wildavsky
Immediately takes its place as the indispensable one-volume guide to American national administration.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Wilson is our Weber and this is his summa ...a sprightly, irreverent, and profoundly serious inquiry as to how you make a nation work.
R. Cort Kirkwood
A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"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."
Harper Collins - New Media
"Wilson is our Weber and this is his summa ...a sprightly, irreverent, and profoundly serious inquiry as to how you make a nation work."
Harper Collins - New Media
"The synthesis is shrewd and creative. The prose is uncommonly swift. The fresh insights are abundant and compelling."
Harper Collins - New Media
"Immediately takes its place as the indispensable one-volume guide to American national administration."
Harper Collins - New Media
"A gold mine of interesting, even unique observations about bureaucratic government on all levels."
Harper Collins - New Media