The Representative Function of Bureaucracy
Public Administration in Constitutive Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11103809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian J Cook (0000-0001-7563-7012, Clark University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 403-429 |
| Publication date | 1992-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administration & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009539979202300401 |
| OpenAlex | W2316047291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 30 |
The dominant hierarchical and pluralist views of the proper role for an active, policy-making bureaucracy in a liberal democracy, which are grounded in concepts of representation, do not adequately justify rule by bureaucrats. Moreover, the idea of representative bureaucracy does not compensate for the deficiencies in hierarchical and pluralist arguments. An alternative defense of the legitimacy of the administrative state must draw on a constitutive rather than an instrumental conception of public administration. An active, policy-making bureaucracy can best be justified by understanding administrative agencies as helping to fulfill the representation and separation-of-powers doctrines of the Constitution, and as representing ideas and values that form a critical part of what constitutes the American regime
Bureaucracy · Constitution · Democracy · Function (biology · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Public Administration
Beyond the Weird World
Representation in Government Boards and Commissions
Minority Public Administrators
Public Administration and the Theater Metaphor
Administrative Interpretation of Statutes
The Unitary Executive Theory in Practice
Curing the Mischiefs of Faction in the American Administrative State
Everyday Politics in Public Administration
The Relevance of Publicness in an Era of Democratic Backsliding
On Legitimacy
Reflections on Defining the Public Interest
Reason, Discretion and Tradition
The Little Blue Pill That Killed the Little Pink House
Dilemmas of Legitimacy
The governmental process
The end of liberalism
Controlling Bureaucracies
City and Regime in the American Republic
The Federalist
Bureaucratic Democracy
Administrators and Citizenship
Of Centennials and Bicentennials
Representative Bureaucracy and Bueaucratic Responsibility
The Federal Bureaucracy and Separation of Powers
Crisis in the U.S. Administrative State
Leadership in the Administrative State
Leadership Failures, the Distrusting Public, and Prospects of the Administrative State
Representative Bureaucracy and Policy Preferences
Squaring the Circle
Bureaucratic Democracy
Crisis and Legitimacy
"The Politics of "Ideational Policy
Economic & Political Rationality
The New Economics of Organization
Bureaucracy in the American Constitutional Order
Bureaucracy and Constitutionalism
Operative Doctrines of Representation
Principals, Bureaucrats, and Responsiveness in Clean Air Enforcements
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |