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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"bureaucratic autonomy"”.
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Stories of Experts and Influence:A Discourse Analytic Approach to Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Cold War Era
Government agencies exercise bureaucratic autonomy when they are able to pursue their goals independent, and sometimes in defiance, of political superiors. Over the last three decades, research in the area of bureaucratic autonomy has provided numerous examples of relatively autonomous agencies and …
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Who Is Our Master? -Debates during Civil Service Reforms-
… over the bureaucracy and claims the existence of bureaucratic autonomy. In the middle of the two theories, there lies multiple masters theory. This dissertation attempts to advocate multiple masters theory by answering such questions as "Is the conception of multiple masters only theoretically …
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Unraveling red tape: foreign aid allocation and the domestic bureaucracy
… conflicting goals and motivations, the level of autonomy of aid agencies shapes their aid allocation decisions. The variation in the institutional designs of these bureaucracies then explains the variations we see in the foreign aid policies across donor countries. This dissertation demonstrates …
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Can housing policy address spatial inequality? : innovations in policy and politics to expand access to opportunity neighborhoods
… regional policies? I propose a theory of urban bureaucratic policy implementation that argues that city agencies are an important vehicle for the implementation of regional policies due to their bureaucratic autonomy. I focus on two strategies these agencies use to facilitate implementation: …