Bureaucracy and Representative Government¶
Niskanen, W. A. (1971). Bureaucracy and Representative Government.
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Primes¶
- Manufactured Dependency for Role Capture
- Bureaucratic empire-building — a unit perpetuates problems within its remit to justify budget and headcount.
This sourceModels budget-maximizing bureaus whose units have incentive to perpetuate problems within their remit to justify budget and headcount.
- Bureaucratic empire-building — a unit perpetuates problems within its remit to justify budget and headcount.
- Shirky Principle
- In government agencies, control bureaucracies have budgets that scale with the prevalence of the very condition they exist to reduce.
This sourceModels bureaus as budget-maximizers, formalizing how an agency's resources scale with its workload/problem rather than its reduction — the stylized B ∝ M coupling.
- In government agencies, control bureaucracies have budgets that scale with the prevalence of the very condition they exist to reduce.
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