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Artificial Intelligence, Discretion, and Bureaucracy

American Review of Public Administration, 2019
This essay highlights the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in governance and society and explores the relationship between AI, discretion, and bureaucracy.
Justin B. Bullock
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Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive

, 1996
A conceptualization of workflow formalization is proposed that helps reconcile the contrasting assessments of bureaucracy as alienating to employees or as enabling them to perform their tasks better.
P. Adler, B. Borys
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Making Bureaucracy Work: Patronage Networks, Performance Incentives, and Economic Development in China

American Journal of Political Science, 2018
Patron–client networks are widely found in governments of transitional societies and are often seen as an impediment to effective governance. This article advances an alternative view that emphasizes their enabling effects.
Junyan Jiang
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The challenge of reforming big bureaucracy in Indonesia

Policy studies, 2019
Under the authoritarian rule of President Suharto, Indonesia built one of the world’s largest bureaucracies. However, it suffered from a range of problems including rampant corruption, inefficiency, poor service delivery and process orientation ...
M. Turner   +2 more
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From professional bureaucracy to competitive bureaucracy – redefining universities’ organization principles, performance measurement criteria, and reason for being

, 2020
This purpose of this study is to understand how the spread of audit culture and the related public sector reforms have affected Finnish universities’ organization principles, performance measurement (PM) criteria and ultimately their reason for being ...
Tomi J. Kallio   +2 more
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Trends and Gaps: A Meta-Review of Representative Bureaucracy

Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2019
The representative bureaucracy theoretical framework explores the link between bureaucrats’ social and demographic characteristics and their likelihood to take actions that benefit citizens with whom they share identities.
Sebawit G. Bishu, Alexis R. Kennedy
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Bureaucracy and Internationalization

2019
The analysis of forms and effects of what is usually conceived of as globalization or internationalization has become a major topic of political speeches and academic research, especially in the social sciences. While the consequences of globalization for Western economies and societies are often at the forefront of debates, their effects on public ...
Schomaker, Rahel M. (Prof. Dr.)   +2 more
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Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study

, 2016
Relying on the theory of representative bureaucracy—specifically, the notion of symbolic representation—this article examines whether varying the number of female public officials overseeing a local recycling program influences citizens’ (especially ...
Norma M. Riccucci   +2 more
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Caring for the Bureaucracy

2023
This chapter considers how the notion of care makes specific scholarly accounts of bureaucracy possible. Knowledges and worlds produced within bureaucratic settings has often played the role of a ‘hegemonic’ backdrop against which alternative knowledges, attachments, politics have been put to the fore.
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Present at the Destruction: The Trump Administration and the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy

Journal of Politics, 2019
Donald Trump has articulated foreign policy ideas at variance with the prior status quo of liberal internationalism. Trump’s status as an ideological outsider poses an interesting question: Can an executive institutionalize unorthodox foreign policy ...
Daniel W. Drezner
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