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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Bureaucrat"”.
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People processing and power : the street-level bureaucrat in public service bureaucracy
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1976
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Essays in behavioral industrial organization, corruption, and marketing
… of complaints against corruption. A bureaucrat has to decide on a public infrastructure project in a village where a rich and a poor villagers live. A dishonest bureaucrat can be bribed not to choose the surplus maximizing project and instead to choose a project that favors the rich …
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The maximization of discretionary budget: an explanation for the pattern of computer investments in the federal government
This study of bureaucratic behavior is from the perspective of a particular federal government operations process - the management and delivery of computing services to the federal agencies. It supports the idea that federal bureaucrats are utility maximizers. The first of the two theories …
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Connections and Privileged Access: Essays on The Political Economy of Corruption
… that underpin this contradiction. First, citizen-bureaucrat relations, and how individuals, in their roles as ordinary citizens or managers of firms, use connections to elected officials and bureaucrats to obtain privileged access to public services or public procurement contracts. Second, the …
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Three essays on the economics of corruption
… the reemployment of high-ranking Japanese bureaucrats in the private sector. The third essay presents a bribery-bidding game with multiple corrupt bureaucrats and a private firm to analyze the corruption in entry regulation. The first essay presents a game that incorporates these features …
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Corruption and political marketing: a game theoretical approach
… resources to finance political campaigns and the bureaucrat to buy goods and services. Any illegal withdraw from the treasury diminishes the politician’s capability to improve social welfare. Politicians care about votes, bureaucrats care about money, and voters care about social welfare and are …
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Essays on the political economy of development in Nigeria
… analysis is based on a dynamic game in which the bureaucrat moves first and decides whether to solicits for bribe or not. Conditional on agents accepting to bribe, harsher punishment for corrupt bureaucrat incentivize him to angle for a larger bribe to compensate for the higher risks. I show that …
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The Following March
<p>When middle-aged bureaucrat James Hallvox meets the much younger JJ Tinkswell, they embark on a brief, dark, and complicated romance. They move to California, where James has been invited to work on a screenwriting project and JJ begins to come into his own as a young and desirable homosexual. …
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Bureaucratic thinking: A study of Block Development Officers of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India
… dissertation is an examination and analysis of bureaucratic perceptions towards development and democracy. It is an effort to provide greater understanding of the individual bureaucrat in his performance as an agent of change. It is also an attempt to build an empirical base for formulating …
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Essays On Policy Dynamics Under Political Frictions
… for the technique when a budget-maximizing bureaucrat interacts with rational, forward-looking citizens. A special case in which the bureaucrat faces no vot- ing uncertainty is solved in closed form to show why the technique can falsely predict under-provision. In the generalized model which …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
… By following the career of this one influential bureaucrat from the Great Depression to the end of the Great Society, I show that the federal government's relationship with the West--and thus the relationship of westerners to their government--cannot be isolated from national political and social …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
… By following the career of this one influential bureaucrat from the Great Depression to the end of the Great Society, I show that the federal government's relationship with the West--and thus the relationship of westerners to their government--cannot be isolated from national political and social …
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Adolf Eichmann: a Reappraisal
… personification of Adolf Eichmann as a banal bureaucrat, which was presented in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Since the publication of her book in 1963 there have been writers who have accepted her characterization of Eichmann as simple, obedient man just …
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The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945
… By examining the thought and activities of the bureaucrat, Mori Hideoto, and the critic, Aikawa Haruki, I demonstrate that technology signified a wider system of social, cultural, and political mechanisms that incorporated the practical-political energies of the people for the construction of a …
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A study of corruption in transition countries
… and charge higher bribes than a single bureaucrat would. Using the BEEPS I, a firm level survey covering 24 transition countries, the chapter 1 examines whether reported bribe payments by firms are higher when firms face numerous officials or only a single one. We find that bribe …
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Operational Military Violence: A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices
… that military violence is becoming increasingly bureaucratised in the wake of this centralisation, and its human consequences are lost in bureaucratic routines and procedures. But so far the research on the bureaucratisation of violence has been delimited to investigations of either the …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
… the role of the tax collector as a street level bureaucrat to re-create the everyday negotiations and claim-making that defines, negotiates, and contests in-between housing spaces. Using a critical local focus, this research advances an emerging agenda in urban studies that examines ‘in-between’ …
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Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner
… George Jameson is represented as a benevolent bureaucrat and a loving father. I argue that though Johnson attempts to represent George's profession as encroaching upon the benign space of family. This is a false opposition in that colonial paternalism is implicit in George's identity as a …
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Elevating Voices: Exploring the Impacts and Experiences of Required Workplace DEI Training
… in government settings, where the bureaucratic structures implementing these trainings are themselves racialized. This research was conducted during one of the most politically hostile environments for DEI work in recent memory. Federal executive actions in 2025, specifically the …
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The role of the principal in motivating his staff and pupils : a psychopedagogic perspective
… include the foilowing: Agitator or reformer; the bureaucrat and nomathet; the ideographic and authoritarian, etc. Leadership is often linked with motivation which can be defined as the intensity of the involvement in anything that a person does. Many authors have from time to time come out with a …
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