Representative Bureaucracy in Action

Edited by Patrick von Maravić, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada, B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pittsburgh, US and Eckhard Schröter, Professor, Zeppelin University, Germany

• Contents:1. Representative Bureaucracy: Concept, Driving Forces, Strategies B. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić PART I: THE AMERICAS2. Representative Bureaucracy in the United States B. Guy Peters 3. Representative Bureaucracy in Canada Luc Turgeon and Alain-G. Gagnon 4. Representative Bureaucracy in Mexico María del Carmen Pardo PART II: EUROPE 5. Representative Bureaucracy in Belgium: Power Sharing or Diversity? Steven van de Walle, Sandra Groeneveld and Lieselot Vandenbussche 6. Representative Bureaucracy in Transitional Bureaucracies: Bulgaria and Romania Katja Michalak 7. Representative Bureaucracy in Germany? From Passive to Active Intercultural OpeningPatrick von Maravić and Sonja M. Dudek8. Representative Bureaucracy in ItalyGiliberto Capano and Nadia Carboni 9. Representative Bureaucracy in the Netherlands Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra 10. Representative Bureaucracy in Switzerland Daniel Kübler 11. Representative Bureaucracy in the United KingdomRhys Andrews PART III: AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND ASIA 12. Representative Bureaucracy in South AfricaRobert Cameron and Chantal Milne13. Politics of Representative Bureaucracy in India Bas van Gool and Frank de Zwart 14. Bureaucratic Representation in Israel Moshe Maor15. Representative Bureaucracy in Australia: A Post-Colonial, Multicultural Society Rodney Smith Bibliography Index

’This volume confronts one of the most central issues in the study and practice of bureaucracy. Questions about representativeness of public institutions raises key issues about legitimacy, especially in contexts characterised by ethnic diversity and cleavages. Debates are shaped by normatively informed positions that contrasts those in favour of representativeness with those who point to limitations and side-effects. This volume offers a set of important contributions to these debates by linking the long-standing debates about representative bureaucracy with an impressive range of country studies. This volume is a fundamental contribution to the theme of representative bureaucracy.’