The Future of Governing: Four Emerging ModelsUniversity Press of Kansas, 1996 - 179 pages "A very important book that should be read by everyone trying to make sense of the reform problem". -- Patricia W. Ingraham, coauthor of New Paradigms for Government. |
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... autonomy exists in very few governments , and even in those few cases there are numerous mechanisms designed to restrain autonomy . In essence the Niskanen model of government is patterned after structures existing in the United States ...
... autonomy exists in very few governments , and even in those few cases there are numerous mechanisms designed to restrain autonomy . In essence the Niskanen model of government is patterned after structures existing in the United States ...
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... autonomous subunits acting almost as firms within the firm . The structural prescriptions for this diagnosis of the problems in public or- ganizations should thus be clear . One central element of the reforms is decen- tralization of ...
... autonomous subunits acting almost as firms within the firm . The structural prescriptions for this diagnosis of the problems in public or- ganizations should thus be clear . One central element of the reforms is decen- tralization of ...
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... autonomous organizations provides relatively little opportunity for either senior bureaucrats or political leaders ... autonomy , then ( all else being equal ) there will be substan- tial transaction costs when they must cooperate to ...
... autonomous organizations provides relatively little opportunity for either senior bureaucrats or political leaders ... autonomy , then ( all else being equal ) there will be substan- tial transaction costs when they must cooperate to ...
Contents
Market Models for Reforming Government | 21 |
The Participatory State | 47 |
Flexible Government | 72 |
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