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Martin Paldam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The public choice of university organization: a stylized story of a constitutional reform
Constitutional Political Economy, 2015Co-Authors: Martin PaldamAbstract:The essay presents and explains a highly stylized story of the reactions of the structure of a university to a constitutional reform—in the university law—that radically changed the power structure from a bottom-up representative system to a top-down hierarchical system practically without checks and balances. It was meant as a more business-like system to increasing effectiveness. However, the result has been precisely the reverse. Both the (relative) size and the salaries of the Bureaucracy have increased, while its effectiveness has fallen. The Bureaucracy has grown particularly fast in the special service bureaus outside the normal structure and in the PR-department. It is shown that these outcomes correspond to the predictions of public choice Theory, notably that of Niskanen’s Theory of Bureaucracy.
Gregory S. Poole - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Administrative practices as institutional identity: bureaucratic impediments to HE ‘internationalisation’ policy in Japan
Comparative Education, 2016Co-Authors: Gregory S. PooleAbstract:ABSTRACTThis paper explores how Bureaucracy impedes the implementation of higher education (HE) policy at Japanese universities. Administrative systems employ Weberian legal-rational bureaucratic practices that are central to the institutional identity of a university. Rather than the means to internationalisation and reform in general, these systems themselves become the end, usually in direct opposition to not only innovation and change but, indeed, the university mission itself. After first outlining the macro-level processes and policies of the internationalisation of Japanese HE, I take an ethnographic approach to illustrate the micro-level administrative practices and assumptions at the university, framing them within the social Theory of Bureaucracy to allow for comparison with HE in other parts of East Asia and worldwide. As a way forward, I propose we borrow theories on social entrepreneurship to potentially resolve the challenge of embedded administrative practices and static institutional ident...
Terry M. Moe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Perspectives on public choice: The positive Theory of public Bureaucracy
Perspectives on Public Choice, 1996Co-Authors: Terry M. MoeAbstract:Modern government is bureaucratic, so a Theory of government worthy of the name must in no small measure be a Theory of Bureaucracy. Over the years, however, Bureaucracy has resisted theoretical progress, and public administration, whose intellectual terrain this is, has gained a reputation for being far less developed than other areas of political science. Two barriers to Theory stand out. The first is that Bureaucracy is a complex subject with no natural focus for analysis. Legislators vote, for instance, but what do bureaucrats do? Similarly, the legislature is organized by committees and party leadership, but what aspects of Bureaucracy call for comparable attention and analysis? There are no obvious answers, and scholars have responded by studying everything about bureaucratic behavior and organization that somehow appears relevant. The second is that these efforts have traditionally been guided by organizational theories from sociology and social psychology, which have not pointed a way out of the thicket. Rather than providing focus and analytic power, they revel in the inherent complexity of Bureaucracy. And as generic theories of all types of organization, they have no special interest in politics and are not designed to explore the political foundations of government (Moe 1991). Public choice is in the process of changing all this, in what amounts to a revolution in the Theory of Bureaucracy. It did not come easily, and major problems remain. But progress has already been substantial. The turning point came during the early 1980s with the rise of the new economics of organization (Moe 1984).
Taptuk Emre Erkoc - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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efficiency of public sector organizations perspectives from theories of Bureaucracy
MPRA Paper, 2013Co-Authors: Taptuk Emre ErkocAbstract:Economic insights on the provision of public goods and services by public sector organizations went hand in hand with probing questions on the efficient allocation of resources within them concerning neo-classical assumptions on the Theory of firm (Coase, 1937; Alchian and Demsetz, 1972). The rationale behind the unprecedented divergences from the neo-classical firm postulations on the basis of not-to-operate at the efficient production frontier has attracted attentions of researchers working not only on the private firms but also on the public sector. This paper investigates theoretical underpinnings of efficient allocation of resources within public sector organizations on the basis of a variety of arguments. Before examining the (in) efficient usage of resources in the public sector that is mostly based on the Theory of Bureaucracy, methodological and practical challenges to measure the efficiency performances of public intuitions are visited. Subsequently, institutional framework on the public provision of goods and services is scrutinised referring particularly to the discussion on incentive schemes and efficiency.
Ali Farazmand - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Bureaucracy and administration
2009Co-Authors: Ali FarazmandAbstract:Bureaucracy, Administration, and Politics: An Introduction, A. Farazmand Historical Antecedents on Bureaucracy Bureaucracy and the Administrative System of the Ancient World-State Persian Empire: Implications for Modern Administration, A. Farazmand Indian Legacy of Bureaucracy and Administration, V. Subramaniam Bureaucracy in the Ottoman-Turkish Polity, M. Heper and A. U. Berkman Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics Bureaucratic Links between Administration and Politics, F. W. Riggs A Parabolic Theory of Bureaucracy or Max Weber through the Looking Glass, G. E. Caiden Building Blocks toward a Theory of Public Administration, G. E. Caiden Bureaucracy, Democracy, and the New Public Management, S. G. Koven Bureaucracy: A Profound Puzzle for Presidentialism, F. W. Riggs Bureaucracy and Modernization, H. M. Johnson Bureaucracy and Public Management Bureaucracy and the Environmental Crisis: A Comparative Perspective, R. Khator The Role of Efficiency in Bureaucratic Study, H. L. Schachter Hurricane Katrina: Preparedness, Response, and the Politics Administration Dichotomy, M. J. Brennan and S. G. Koven Exit Surveys: Are They Worth the Effort?, C. L. Jurkiewicz, R. A. Giacalone, and S. B. Knouse Training Local Environmental Governance Leaders: A Case of International Cooperation, I. Suzuki Ethical Foundations, O. G. Stahl Public Service Ethics and Professionalism: A Primer for Public officials, A. Farazmand Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Politics in the Americas The American President as a Bureaucratic Leader, R. E. Dewhirst The Globalization of Public Budgeting in the United States, P. Fisher and D. C. Nice The Wright Brothers' Contract: Lessons in Ambiguity and Bureaucracy, R. E. Lloyd At the Intersection of Bureaucracy, Democracy, and the Media: The Effective Agency Spokesperson, M. Lee Evolution and Revolution: Enduring Patterns and the Transformation of Latin American Bureaucracy, J. W. Hopkins Bureaucratic Politics in Europe Running the Bureaucratic State: Administration in France, D. Wilsford Greek Bureaucracy and Public Administration: The Persistent Failure of Reform, C. P. Danopoulos and A. C. Danopoulos Bureaucratic Politics in Asia and the Middle East Globalization, Decentralization, and Public Entrepreneurship: Reorienting Bureaucracy in the People's Republic of China, P. H. Koehn Coping with Enhanced Administration: Estimating the Effectiveness of Public Service Training in Hong Kong, L. Vyas Evaluation of Public Service Training in India: Providers, Consumers, and Outcome, A. S. Huque and L. Vyas The Administrative Challenge of Population Policy: Lessons from China and India, P. C. Trogen and L. S. Felker Big Businessmen at the Helm: The Politics of Conflict of Interest in Thailand, B. Bowornwathana The Sociopolitical Structure and Public Administration in India, R.B. Jain The Problems of Civil Service Reforms and Development in Bangladesh: Causes and Remedies, M. R. Islam Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization, Change, and Revolution Bureaucracy, Bureaucratization, and Debureaucratization in Ancient and Modern Iran, A. Farazmand Bureaucracy and Debureaucratization: A Conceptual Analysis, D. Argyriades Bureaucracy, Agrarian Reforms, and Regime Maintenance Politics: The Case of Prerevolutionary Iran, A. Farazmand Bureaucracy and Reform in the Arab World, J. E. Jreisat Bureaucracy and Revolution: The Case of Iran, A. Farazmand Two Futures of Governing: Decentering and Recentering in Governing Processes, B. G. Peters Index
