The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat
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The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat

Appraisals and Evidence

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The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat

Appraisals and Evidence

About this book

Thirteen scholars reexamine one of the most provocative and debated models of bureaucratic behavior, as developed by William A. Niskanen in his seminal book, Bureaucracy and Representative Government. The essays evaluate a wide array of findings, both qualitative and quantitative, relevant to the various aspects of the model, and offer conclusions about its merits and limits, suggesting alternative explanations of bureaucratic behavior. Niskanen provides his own reassessment and reflections on the debate.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. A Reflection on Bureaucracy and Western Government
  5. 2. Budget Size and Bureaucratic Careers
  6. 3. The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat: Is There a Case?
  7. 4. The Limits of the Budget-Maximizing Theory: Some Evidence from Officials' Views of Their Roles and Careers
  8. 5. The Politics and Management of Restraint Budgeting
  9. 6. Bureaucrats and Budgetary Outcomes: Quantitative Analyses
  10. 7. Bureaucrats and Conservative Governments
  11. 8. The Voting Behavior of Bureaucrats
  12. 9. Policy Attitudes and Political Ideology in the Public Sector
  13. 10. Public Sector Unions, Government Expenditures, and the Bureaucratic Model
  14. 11. The European Bureaucrat: The Applicability of Bureaucracy and Representative Government to Non-American Settings
  15. Conclusion: Are Bureaucrats Budget Maximizers?
  16. Notes on Contributors