Representative Bureaucracy: Characteristics, Levels of Government, Impact, and Literature Review

Running head: REPRESENTATIVE BUREAUCRACY 1
Representative Bureaucracy
Outline
A. Introduction
I. Historical background
II. Characteristics of bureaucracy
B. The levels of governments
I. Local level of governments
II. State level of governments
III. Federal level of governments
3.0 Representative bureaucracy
I. Active representations
II. Passive representations
4.0 Impact of Representative Bureaucracy
I. positive impact
II. Negative impact
III. Law enforcement
IV. Impact of education
5.0 Conclusion

REPRESENTATIVE BUREAUCRACY 2
6.0 References
Annotated bibliography
Krislov, S. (2012). Representative bureaucracy. Quid Pro Books.
The writer is a professor of political science and law at the University of Minnesota. The
book covers much on bureaucracy. The content argues that political institutions are represented
in public bureaucracies. The content is relevant to my paper as it covers literature related to
bureaucracy and public administration.
Sowa, J. E., & Selden, S. C. (2003). Administrative discretion and active representation: An
expansion of the theory of representative bureaucracy. Public Administration Review, 63(6),
700-710.
Sowa represents the Southern Carolina departments of political science and as an
associate professor in the Lynchburg college management field. The author covers much on
active representation as a form of representative bureaucracy. It covers discretion among
administrators claiming that they need to produce results that reflect the values of people being
led. The relevance to the paper is in its bureaucratic coverage.
Weber, M. (2015). Bureaucracy. In Working in America (pp. 29-34). Routledge.
The author is a German theorist and sociologist. The article explores aspects of
bureaucracy and principles of management. It defines bureaucracy in general, the six principles