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Showing 1 to 20 of 470 for “"Bureaucracy"”.
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS BETWEEN BUREAUCRACY AND POST-BUREAUCRACY: A PARADOXICAL PERSPECTIVE
… the reimagining of the ongoing debate between bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy. The findings reveal the pervasiveness of PA paradoxes and their relation to bureaucracy-post-bureaucracy contraposition. The second chapter employs a historical approach to investigate how PAs navigate the …
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Bureaucracy and other stories
The following project is the product of three years of intensive research and trial and error. You’ll notice it’s divided into two sections: fiction and nonfiction. However, one of the research questions central to this project is: What are some of the reasons such genre differences matter? What …
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Bureaucracy and Teachers' Sense of Power
… of Max Weber's (1946) theory of bureaucracy as an analytical tool in Turkey. The population was 1946 teachers in 91 public schools that employ five or more teachers. The instruments were distributed to 725 teachers in 68 schools in Karabuk province. Useable returns were 486. A …
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Career development in the bureaucracy of Jordan
Abstract available: p. x
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Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Bureaucracy
… Zhou Enlai's role in the struggle to control the bureaucracy. The major rectification movements in China from 1949 to the Cultural Revolution are examined, comparing Mao's and Zhou's position on the role of the bureaucracy in China's development.
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Essays on Bureaucracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bureaucracies in sub-Saharan Africa frequently depart from the Weberian ideal, but how does the politicization of these bureaucracies affect governance and the implementation of public policy? My dissertation explores this question through three essays. In the first essay, I introduce a unique data …
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Essays on the economics of authority and bureaucracy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Revolution and its bureaucracy ; an analysis of the similarities and differences of revolution and its bureaucracy of Ignazio Silone and Milovan Djilas.
… Revolutions. Industrialization led to the party bureaucracy’s socio-political stranglehold over the state and its people. The Conclusion seeks to highlight the similarities and differences in the lives and views of these two men.
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Implementing sustainability in large public organizations: impacts of bureaucracy
Environmental Planning theory tells us that continued improvement in environmental outcomes will require new approaches that are voluntary; behavior change will come from within organizations, not imposed from outside. The concept of sustainability fits in this new phase of environmental planning …
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Parole Bureaucracy: The Decision Making Process of Paroling Authorities
The Board does not administer hearings according to any structured interview schedule. Each member conducts the hearings he/she is assigned to by focusing on the facts of each case. Thus, hearing decisions are not routine or automatic. Furthermore, it became evident that even though Board members' …
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Between Bureaucracy and Democracy: Regulating Administrative Discretion in Japan
… study explores the link between democracy and bureaucracy using Japan as the critical case study. The research question is whether competition by multiple principals creates opportunities for bureaucratic drift. This project hypothesizes that policy settings including multiple principals …
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Bureaucracy at the state level: the quest for responsibility
This thesis replicates Herbert Kaufman's study of the administrative behavior of federal bureau chiefs at the state level. Kaufman asserted that bureau chiefs are not as autonomous as we depicted. Their behavior is confined by the legal, institutional, political and operational constraints. This …
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Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State
Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State endeavors, much like Thomas Carlyle, to understand the crisis of the present through an analysis of the past, but more specifically through fictions of the Victorian past. For it is only there, in the amalgam of stories …
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Making Bureaucracy Accountable: Three Essays on Bureaucratic Accountability in China
As accountability theories are mostly concentrated on electoral politics, government accountability remains an understudied topic in authoritarian regimes. My dissertation explores China's government accountability through three lenses. First, I examine how administrative decentralization impacts …
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Unraveling red tape: foreign aid allocation and the domestic bureaucracy
Researchers from Hans Morgenthau and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita have suggested that donor countries view foreign aid as a strategic tool in their economic arsenal. In contrast, however, donor countries actually describe their foreign aid as purely altruistic, as a way to alleviate poverty in the …
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Development administration: the role of bureaucracy in national integration in Nigeria
… deferred most of the decision making to the bureaucracy. With the military came the oil boom and the beginning of central rule in Nigeria. Perceiving the demise of the civilian government as the ills of regionalism the military elite sought to convert Nigeria into an administrative state. The …
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Negotiating Gender and Bureaucracy: Female Managers in Indonesia's Ministry of Finance
There is global recognition of the need for more women in decision-making positions within bureaucracies to ensure gender-equitable policies and outcomes. Article 7 of the Convention of the Elimination of the Discrimination against Women commits states to ensure equality between women and men in …
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