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Bureaucracy Between Populism and Technocracy
Administration & Society, 2019Democratic institutions were on the rise in the 1990s but in many instances are under stress currently threatened by populist authoritarianism. The independence of the civil service, of the courts, and of the press is under various levels of threat in ...
B. Rockman
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Digitalization, Street‐Level Bureaucracy and Welfare Users' Experiences
, 2018Internet/web-based forms of communication have increasingly been implemented by welfare agencies. However, there have been few studies of the experiences of welfare service users and the consequences of new technology for welfare service users.
Hans Hansen +2 more
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Nonrecording the “European refugee crisis” in Greece: Navigating through irregular bureaucracy
, 2017This article explores nonrecording on the borders of Europe during the “European refugee crisis” in 2015. It examines the ambiguous practices of border control and the diverse actors involved.
K. Rozakou
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1987
Areas on which questions are asked include the following: 1 Why do bureaucracies develop? How can they be analysed? 2 The process of bureaucratisation. Types of organisation: formal and informal. 3 Weber’s analysis. 4 Advantages and disadvantages of bureaucratic organisations.
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Areas on which questions are asked include the following: 1 Why do bureaucracies develop? How can they be analysed? 2 The process of bureaucratisation. Types of organisation: formal and informal. 3 Weber’s analysis. 4 Advantages and disadvantages of bureaucratic organisations.
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Economic Inquiry, 1979
This study explores paperwork as an inherent characteristic of bureaucratic behavior. The magnitude and scope of the federal government paperwork burden on the private sector is given particular emphasis. A theoretical model of bureaucratic behavior is developed which shows that bureaucrats employ paperwork to shift the cost of agency functions to the ...
Manuel H. Johnson, James T. Bennett
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This study explores paperwork as an inherent characteristic of bureaucratic behavior. The magnitude and scope of the federal government paperwork burden on the private sector is given particular emphasis. A theoretical model of bureaucratic behavior is developed which shows that bureaucrats employ paperwork to shift the cost of agency functions to the ...
Manuel H. Johnson, James T. Bennett
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The Iron Cage Revisited, 2018
The professions in the contemporary public sector, Martin Laffin medicine, David Hunter nursing, Stephen Ackroyd accounting in local government, Linda Keen and Michael Murphy planning, Huw Thomas social services, Roger Clough social housing management ...
M. Laffin
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The professions in the contemporary public sector, Martin Laffin medicine, David Hunter nursing, Stephen Ackroyd accounting in local government, Linda Keen and Michael Murphy planning, Huw Thomas social services, Roger Clough social housing management ...
M. Laffin
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2018
The relationship between politics and administration in democratic systems is a key theme in political studies. Political institutions and bureaucratic institutions plan and develop their actions according to a different logic, and different constitutive and organizational principles.
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The relationship between politics and administration in democratic systems is a key theme in political studies. Political institutions and bureaucratic institutions plan and develop their actions according to a different logic, and different constitutive and organizational principles.
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2022
This chapter examines how networks and hierarchies are false opposites. The chapter explores the transmission of power through networks, from the history of Christianity to the rise of modern bureaucracies. Turning to communist revolutionary strategy, the insurgency of Mao, and the construction of the US railway network, the chapter shows that networks
Nicholas Michelsen, Neville Bolt
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This chapter examines how networks and hierarchies are false opposites. The chapter explores the transmission of power through networks, from the history of Christianity to the rise of modern bureaucracies. Turning to communist revolutionary strategy, the insurgency of Mao, and the construction of the US railway network, the chapter shows that networks
Nicholas Michelsen, Neville Bolt
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The Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in a Government Agency
, 2015This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949.
Sally Selden
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