POLS 214: Bureaucracy and Democracy (HC)

Publishes literature reviews by scholars in the field. They tend to explore a specific topic in depth. Use the search function to find such relevant lit reviews as
"The Politics of Rulemaking in the United States" (2019)
"Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration" (2022)
"The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization" (2008)
"Comparative Bureaucratic Politics" (2022)
"Formal Models of Bureaucracy" (2012)
Articles from other disciplines in the Annual Review journals may be relevant. Use the search bar at the top of the page to find material in the reviews from all the different subject areas. The keyword bureaucra* brings up results including these articles:
"Construction of Justice at the Street Level" (Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2014)
"Desiring Bureaucracy" (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2021)
"Documents and Bureaucracy" (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2012)
"Managing Street-Level Arbitrariness" (Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2017)

Extensive annotated bibliographies on specific topics in various subject areas including political science and related areas written by scholars in the field. New essays are added twice a year. Essays of interest now available include:
"Local Governments in the United States"
"The New Institutionalism Revisited"
"The US. Presidency" Includes discussions of bureaucracy in several sections.
Other sections of Oxford Bibliographies Online include such relevant essays as:
"Anthropology of NGOs"
"School Choice"
"Bureaucracy" , based on research in anthropology

Access reports from the Foundation Center limited to topic and geographical area.

This is a free information service on the programs and finances of more than 600,000 charities and nonprofits, news on philanthropy, and resources for donors and volunteers.

Research and advocacy group for the nation's 3 thousand+ county governments. Note in particular the resources under the Topics and Resources tabs as well as the policy briefs under the Advocacy tab.

Sponsored by the Urban Institute, this group's mission is to "develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit organizations and their activities for use in research on the relationships between the nonprofit sector, government, the commercial sector, and the broader civil society."

"The National Conference of State Legislatures is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues."

This organization offers research, resources and advocacy for cities in the United States.

"The best way to keep career federal civil servants from leaving for higher-paying private industry jobs is to provide them with opportunities to influence decisions in their agency, according to a study released by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University." This policy brief is based on a journal article by Anthony Bertelli and David Lewis.

recommendations from the organization, Partnership for Public Service.

Resource lists from the Princeton University Library. Includes sections on statistics, policies, partisanship and state legislatures.

Over 3500 federal executives were surveyed in 2014 concerning the key issues facing the government workforce. A new survey was done in 2020. Preliminary results were released in March 2022. For more information, see this summary of findings and the journal article, "Is the Failed Pandemic Response a Symptom of a Diseased Administrative State?", by David Lewis.