Politics of Representative Bureaucracy

Edited by B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor Emeritus of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, US, Patrick von Maravić, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada and Eckhard Schröter, German Police University, Münster, Germany

• Contents:1. Delivering Public Services in Multiethnic Societies – The Challenge of RepresentativenessB. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić2. The Comparative Study of Representative Bureaucracy – An Analytical FrameworkB. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić3. The “Performance Claim’ of Representative Bureaucracy – Does Organization Matter?Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić4. Reconsidering Political and Bureaucratic Representation in Modern GovernmentPatrick von Maravić and B. Guy Peters5. Representative Bureaucracy in a Cross-national Context: Politics, Identity, Structure and DiscretionKenneth J. Meier and Tabitha S.M. Morton6. Political Patronage, Machine Politics and Ethnic Representativeness in the Public SectorB. Guy Peters 7. Migration and Urban Governance - Challenges for Democratic Legitimacy?Tassilo Herrschel 9. Civic Leadership, and Local Politics in Multi-Cultural CitiesRobin Hambleton10. From Plutocracy to Diversity. The (De-)Construction of Representative Bureaucracy TheoryBas van Gool BibliographyIndex

‘Given the ongoing discussions regarding the legitimacy of the public service in relation to both the rise of a multicultural society and of multi-level governance, representative bureaucracy remains of the utmost importance to public administration. This volume consists of apt and perceptive contributions to the debate made by authoritative writers in the field.’