Bureaucracy's Disquieting News: Entangled in Uncertainty
本文通过《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》的28篇报道,分析联邦机构在外部力量干扰下难以实现计划目标的现象,并将案例按理想类型分类,对成功与失败案例进行对比。
Government bureaucracy is widely ignored, condemned, ridiculed, and misunderstood. In this article, combined stories by reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post reveal that federal agencies seldom reach planned goals unambiguously without complication from external forces. A total of 28 articles is summarized, classified under five ideals, and equally divided between failures and successes. A later companion piece is entitled “Bureaucracy's Welcome News: More Women at the Helm,” based on data in successive editions of the United States Government Manual.