Red Tape: Its Origins, Uses and Abuses by Herbert KaufmanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Not sure this is the book I read, but if so, it is a greatly useful book on bureacracies, red tape, and how they have related to public administration and governance in many historical instances. I read this book for a course I took in public administration, circa 1982, and this is one book that really impressed me, and stayed with me during the ensuing years. Another couple of books I cannot find, that similarly impressed me greatly, were "Choice Points" something about fight or flight and other dipolar choices we all make in our human lives, a social psychology text of around 100 pages or so; and "Class, State and Crime" a truly great survey book with critical analyses of crime and punishment rules, regulations, laws and traditions, and how we got to where we are today. The Author was rumored to be a Marxist, but I found his incisive, "outside the box" thinking refreshing and bracing. If you want to rethink what you think on this subject matter area, from top to bottom, short of grabbing a French Intellectual's book in translation, this is the book for you.
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