`This volume confronts one of the most central issues in the study and The book explores one of the most topical issues of public bureaucracies worldwide: the relationship between the composition of the public sector workforce and the nature of the society it serves.

Contents: 1. Representative Bureaucracy: Concept, Driving Forces, Strategies B. Guy Peters, Eckhard Schröter and Patrick von Maravić PART I: THE AMERICAS 2. Representative Bureaucracy in the United States B. Guy Peters 3. Representative Bureaucracy in Canada Luc Turgeon and Alain-G. Gagnon 4. Representative Bureaucracy in Mexico María del Carmen Pardo PART II: EUROPE 5. Representative Bureaucracy in Belgium: Power Sharing or Diversity? Steven van de Walle, Sandra Groeneveld and Lieselot Vandenbussche 6. Representative Bureaucracy in Transitional Bureaucracies: Bulgaria and Romania Katja Michalak 7. Representative Bureaucracy in Germany? From Passive to Active Intercultural Opening Patrick von Maravić and Sonja M. Dudek 8. Representative Bureaucracy in Italy Giliberto Capano and Nadia Carboni 9. Representative Bureaucracy in the Netherlands Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra 10. Representative Bureaucracy in Switzerland Daniel Kübler 11. Representative Bureaucracy in the United Kingdom Rhys Andrews PART III: AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND ASIA 12. Representative Bureaucracy in South Africa Robert Cameron and Chantal Milne 13. Politics of Representative Bureaucracy in India Bas van Gool and Frank de Zwart 14. Bureaucratic Representation in Israel Moshe Maor 15. Representative Bureaucracy in Australia: A Post-Colonial, Multicultural Society Rodney Smith Bibliography Index

’This volume confronts one of the most central issues in the study and practice of bureaucracy. Questions about representativeness of public institutions raises key issues about legitimacy, especially in contexts characterised by ethnic diversity and cleavages. Debates are shaped by normatively informed positions that contrasts those in favour of representativeness with those who point to limitations and side-effects. This volume offers a set of important contributions to these debates by linking the long-standing debates about representative bureaucracy with an impressive range of country studies. This volume is a fundamental contribution to the theme of representative bureaucracy.’