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  title info:
    title: Blaming bureaucracy
    sub title: reckoning with a problematic political activity
  name:
    name part: Hinterleitner, Markus
    name part: 1987-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: "Political life in advanced democracies is steeped in negativity toward bureaucracy. Politicians, parties, and the media routinely blame the bureaucracy for all kinds of political, social, or economic problems. Whenever there's controversy to be processed, bureaucracy is often the scapegoat. While one might expect this negativity to be due to the bureaucracy's actual performance, or simply a reflection of more general frustrations with democracy, the truth lies elsewhere. We don't blame the bureaucracy so much because its performance is so poor or because we're fed up with how things are run in our countries, but rather because democracies are characterized by dynamics and discourses in which the bureaucracy quickly finds itself at the receiving end of blame. This book is the first to unpack these dynamics. For many actors, blaming the bureaucracy is the most convenient thing to do in controversial and conflictual situations - of which there are many in modern democracies. Bureaucracy is everyone's favorite scapegoat because it can be plausibly blamed for almost anything and because it is unlikely to fight back. Unfortunately, bureaucracy is far too valuable to be everyone's punching bag. Rampant bureaucracy blaming undermines administrative performance and creates a public discourse in which a weak and curtailed bureaucracy becomes popular. Because bureaucracy blaming threatens to dismantle the very structures that sustain our democracies, this problematic political activity deserves our full attention"--
  table of contents: Welcome to blame world -- A short history of bureaucracy critique -- The bureaucracy's vulnerability to blame attacks -- Politicians' favorite scapegoat -- Why no one is coming to the rescue of bureaucracy -- The problematic consequences of bureaucracy blaming -- Why we need the bureaucracy more than ever -- Toward better bureaucracy blaming.
  note: Markus Hinterleitner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
  subject:
    topic: Political sociology
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Blame
  subject:
    topic: Blâme
  subject:
    topic: Sociologie politique
  subject:
    topic: Administration publique (Science)
  subject:
    topic: Blame
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
  subject:
    topic: Political sociology
  subject:
    topic: Public administration
  subject:
    topic: Society & culture: general
  subject:
    topic: Society
  subject:
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Public Affairs & Administration
  classification: JA75.7 .H5 2026
  classification: 306.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Blaming bureaucracy
    name:
      name part: Hinterleitner, Markus, 1987-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1530353682
  identifier: 9780198980186
  identifier: 0198980183
  identifier: 9780198980162
  identifier: 0198980167
  identifier: 9780198980155
  identifier: 9780198980179
  identifier: 0198980175
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250901
    record change date: 20260319210534.5
    record identifier: in00005728839
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng