Bureaucracy at the state level: the quest for responsibility

This thesis replicates Herbert Kaufman's study of the administrative behavior of federal bureau chiefs at the state level. Kaufman asserted that bureau chiefs are not as autonomous as we depicted. Their behavior is confined by the legal, institutional, political and operational constraints. Thi...

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Main Author: Lui, Percy Luen-Tim
Other Authors: Public Administration and Public Affairs
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42989
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06102009-063147/