Fear of Bureaucracy: A Raging Pandemic

Kaufman, Herbert

doi:10.2307/975718

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“…Political institutions, such as legislative bodies, restrict bureaucratic power (Kaufman 1981) and control the level of public spending (Miller and Moe 1983). Privatization and market structures might increase rather than decrease government growth and inefficiency (Breton and Wintrobe 19751, particularly when they fail to introduce market competition (Wise 1990).…”

Section: Public Management Reform and Perceived Self-interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Public/Private Cleavage in a Welfare State: Attitudes Toward Public Management Reform

Wise

Szücs

1996

Governance

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This study contributes to the growing literature on differences in attitudes between public and private sector employees, particularly with respect to their receptivity or resistance to public management reforms. We begin by asking the question: to what degree does perceived self-interest play a role in accounting for attitudes toward public management reforms such as downsizing, privatization, and public spending? Using attitudinal data from Sweden, a social welfare state with a large public bureaucracy, a tension is observed both among public employees in different levels of government and between public and private sector employees. In the context of public management reforms, national government employees emerge as more right-leaning politically and more supportive of public management reforms than those working in local government. The analysis finds, particularly among national government employees, that while interest as measured here is strongly related to attitudes toward reform, status as a public employee and status as a public bureaucrat are not as significant as other components of interest in accounting for attitudes toward public management reform.

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Section: Public Management Reform and Perceived Self-interestmentioning

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The Public/Private Cleavage in a Welfare State: Attitudes Toward Public Management Reform

Wise

Szücs

1996

Governance

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“…The danger is that in doing so Britain's welfare capitalism withers and its society regresses. 'Bureaucracy' has been a term of abuse in popular language for a long time (Albrow, 1970;Kaufman, 1981) and its pathologies -red tape, delays, inflexibility (see Merton, 1957) -have been a popular target for politicians too. However, over the last 40 years there has been a sustained attack on bureaucracy on a broader front: as the basis of state organisation, not just on its obvious perceived pathologies.…”

Section: Conclusion: Contemporary Discontentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Withering of the Welfare State

Connelly¹,

Hayward²

2012

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“…In short, authors have described bureaucracy 'as one of the worst (and one of the most inevitable) sources of potential failure in any system of modern governance' (Behn 1998 , p. 210). In response to this 'fear of bureaucracy' (Kaufman 1981 ), political principals establish precautions to ensure that their agents will act within the democratically legitimized parameters of their mandate (McCubbins et al 1987 ).…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Assistance to Police Reform

Eckhard

2016

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Fear of Bureaucracy: A Raging Pandemic

Cited by 61 publications

References 7 publications

The Public/Private Cleavage in a Welfare State: Attitudes Toward Public Management Reform

The Public/Private Cleavage in a Welfare State: Attitudes Toward Public Management Reform

The Withering of the Welfare State

International Assistance to Police Reform

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