Bureaucratic Ambition

Author : Manuel P. Teodoro
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421402459
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Ambition written by Manuel P. Teodoro and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration Book Award of the American Society for Public Administration Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration “entrepreneurs” do not profit from their innovations. What motivates enterprising public executives? How are they created? Manuel P. Teodoro’s theory of bureaucratic executive ambition explains why pioneering leaders aren not the result of serendipity, but rather arise out of predictable institutional design. Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows how psychological motives and career opportunities shape administrators’ decisions, and he reveals the consequences these choices have for innovation and democratic governance. Tracing the career paths and political behavior of agency executives, Teodoro finds that, when advancement involves moving across agencies, ambitious bureaucrats have strong incentives for entrepreneurship. Where career advancement occurs vertically within a single organization, ambitious bureaucrats have less incentive for innovation, but perhaps greater accountability. This research introduces valuable empirical methods and has already generated additional studies. A powerful argument for the art of the possible, Bureaucratic Ambition advances a flexible theory of politics and public administration. Its lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators.

Author : Manuel P. Teodoro
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421403765
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Ambition written by Manuel P. Teodoro and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration Book Award of the American Society for Public Administration Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration “entrepreneurs” do not profit from their innovations. What motivates enterprising public executives? How are they created? Manuel P. Teodoro’s theory of bureaucratic executive ambition explains why pioneering leaders aren not the result of serendipity, but rather arise out of predictable institutional design. Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows how psychological motives and career opportunities shape administrators’ decisions, and he reveals the consequences these choices have for innovation and democratic governance. Tracing the career paths and political behavior of agency executives, Teodoro finds that, when advancement involves moving across agencies, ambitious bureaucrats have strong incentives for entrepreneurship. Where career advancement occurs vertically within a single organization, ambitious bureaucrats have less incentive for innovation, but perhaps greater accountability. This research introduces valuable empirical methods and has already generated additional studies. A powerful argument for the art of the possible, Bureaucratic Ambition advances a flexible theory of politics and public administration. Its lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators.

Author : Manuel P. Teodoro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Ambition written by Manuel P. Teodoro and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Banks P. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190928247
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition written by Banks P. Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Attorneys (USAs), the chief federal prosecutors in each judicial district, are key in determining how the federal government uses coercive force against its citizens. How much control do national political actors exert over the prosecutorial decisions of USAs? This book investigates this question using a unique dataset of federal criminal prosecutions between 1986 and 2015 that captures both decisions by USAs to file cases as well as the sentences that result. Utilizing intuitions from principal-agent theory, work on the career ambition of bureaucrats and politicians, and selected case-studies, the authors develop and advance a set of hypotheses about control by the President and Congress. Harnessing variation across time, federal judicial districts, and five legal issue areas - immigration, narcotics, terrorism, weapons, and white-collar crime - Miller and Curry find that USAs are subject to considerable executive influence in their decision making, supporting findings about the increase of presidential power over the last three decades. In addition, they show that the ability of the President to appoint USAs to higher-level positions within the executive branch or to federal judgeships is an important mechanism of that control. This investigation sheds light on how the need to be responsive to popularly-elected principals channels the enormous prosecutorial discretion of USAs.

Author : Barun Kumar Sahu
Publisher : Pustak Mahal
ISBN 13 : 9788122308754
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwritten Flaws of Indian Bureaucracy written by Barun Kumar Sahu and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Warren G. Bennis
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0878555463
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Bureaucracy written by Warren G. Bennis and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like it or not, contemporary man is man-in-bureaucracy. He spends the majority of his waking hours in a bureaucracy; es-tablishes an identity and status in a bureaucracy; garners most of his satis-factions and disappointments in a bu-reaucracy; and, increasingly, he is what he does. Aside from the importance of understand-ing those institutions that shape our values, behavior, and experience, bu-reaucracy is a vital area for study because it reveals a wide range of social behavior in a compact and comprehensible way. The abstract and ephemeral problems of society at large are brought down to earth made measurable, comprehensible and visible in the bureaucratic microcosm. Problems of power and influence, change and innovation, intergroup conflict, ambition and aspiration, self-realization versus participative democracy, technology versus humanism: all can be observed and analyzed in human organizations. This volume pinpoints the dilemma of present bureaucratic organizations: the conflict between the need to sustain innovation and bureaucratic drives toward rationality and stability. The essays it contains discuss specific human needs that bureaucracy must meet if it is to continue to attract talented people and takes a step into the future to analyze the kinds of organizations that may be expected to evolve as institutions seek more flexible use of human resources.

Author : B Guy Peters
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473993938
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Public Administration written by B Guy Peters and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen relationship. Wide-ranging in scope, The Next Public Administration: Extends basic public administration to consider issues associated with management, governance and democracy Covers core public administration concepts and their evolution through time Draws on an international spread of examples, bringing theoretical discussions to life Includes lists of further reading Essential reading for students of public management and public administration.

Author : Harold Evans Old
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Structure, Rational Bureaucrats and Bureau Policy written by Harold Evans Old and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Chackerian
Publisher : Chicago : Nelson-Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bureaucratic Power in Society written by Richard Chackerian and published by Chicago : Nelson-Hall. This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Orange Flower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century Magazine written by Benjamin Orange Flower and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: