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156 Government Resources
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Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control
links.jstor.org— — “This paper examines the role of administrative law in assisting political actors in controlling the bureaucracy.”
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Political Implications of Budgetary Reform
links.jstor.org— — “For years budget reforms have been sought in the name of economy, efficiency, and good government…In this article the author argues that few, if any, reformers realize that any effective change in the budgetary process inevitably results in changes in the “who gets what” of government decisions.”
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Bureaucrats and Politicians - William A. Niskanen
links.jstor.org— — “My theory represents the relation between an elementary bureau and its government review group as that of a bilateral monopoly.”
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Series on Law, including intro to Weber and bureaucracy.
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How does leadership happen?
nyu.edu— — “NYU Wagner Associate Professor Sonia M. Ospina discusses the paradox of leadership.”
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Hip Hop & Politics: Privatization of Prisons
qd3.com— — “Problems of prison overcrowding and high costs has led to the privatization of prisons. Watch this clip from QD3’s “Letter to the President” DVD as artists talk about private prisons as a booming industry.”
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Long Journey, Young Lives
abc.net.au— — “Award winning filmmaker David Goldie and his co-producer Sohail Dahdal joined together to make Long Journey, Young Lives . . . The project features a series of clips featuring either a refugee child discussing their experience or an Australian child sharing their thoughts on asylum seekers.”
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From the Mouths of Leaders
youtube.com— — British video featuring ‘inspirational’ quotes from ‘leaders’
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FedEx vs. Government Bureaucracy -- Newt Gingrich
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The Politics–Administration Dichotomy in U.S. Historical Context
blackwell-synergy.com— — “This article distinguishes the competing interpretations of the politics–administration dichotomy, noting that as, originally framed, it was intended to detach partisan politics and patronage from sound public management.”
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The Politics–Administration Dichotomy: An Empirical Search for Correspondence between Theory and Practice
blackwell-synergy.com— — “The politics–administration dichotomy has been one of the most disputed theories of public administration. This article first builds a theoretical model of the politics–administration dichotomy and then evaluates the model using empirical data…”
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Public Service in the Age of Globalization
deimos3.apple.com— — “Madeline Albright speaks at the Yale Law School on public service in the age of globalization.”
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Privatization and the Common Good
deimos3.apple.com— — “Martha Minow speaks to Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics Distinguished Lecture Series on the relationship between privatization and the public good.”
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An urban mayor's perspective on public interest advocacy
deimos3.apple.com— — “Cory Brooker was elected Mayor of Newark, New Jersey in 2006.”
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Ministerial responsibility and the machinery of government
blackwell-synergy.com— — “This article examines the relationship between ministerial responsibility and the machinery of government.”
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Truth in government and the politicization of public service advice
blackwell-synergy.com— — “The growing openness of government documentation is placing pressure on departmental officials who wish to be both loyal to their political masters and honest in their factual assessments. These issues are discussed with reference to recent Australian experience.”
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Street-level bureaucracy and public accountability
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“In this article some axiomatic assumptions are drawn from the existing literature on the theme of street-level bureaucracy and on the conception of governance. Arguing for contextualized research, this results in a rethinking of the issue of accountability at the street level.”
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In Praise of Bureaucracy? A Dissent From Australia
aas.sagepub.com— — “This article explores whether bureaucracy creates alienation, through a case study of the Australian Public Service. By examining the structural determinants of seven job characteristics, it shows that alienation is generated by six features of bureaucracy…”
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Toward a Relevant Agenda for a Responsive Public Administration
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“The relevance of the concept “bureaucratic responsiveness” has been questioned [due to] environmental changes that are occurring in public administration. This article formulate[s] a set of six variants… dictated, constrained, purposive, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and negotiated.”
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Ministerial responsibility and the machinery of government
blackwell-synergy.com— — “This article examines the relationship between ministerial responsibility and the machinery of government. It discusses how constitutional government and the practical day-to-day functioning of a parliamentary democracy depend on ministerial responsibility.”