Browsing by Subject "Bureaucracy"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The effect of bureaucratic structure on individual contributions to a public good is examined using a laboratory experiment. It is proposed that when individuals are placed in the context of an ideal-typical bureaucracy ...
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(2022-07-22)This dissertation presents a framework for understanding how bureaucratic jobs, matches between governments and bureaucrats, are formed that considers the simultaneous preferences of bureaucrats and the governments that ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The research presented here has three major purposes. The first is to explain how political institutions and policy outputs can change in the presence of a growing minority population when the preferences of these minorities ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)A lack of understanding of the internal bureaucratic procedures for adapting exists among sociologists. This dissertation consists of a change model, the variables of which are based upon the goals, roles, structure, change ...
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(2009-05-15)This project examines the determinants of political responsiveness to bureaucratic performance. A large literature exists that has examined how bureaucratic agencies are responsive to political institutions. While policy ...
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(2009-05-15)Presidential policy making in Congress is a lengthy, difficult process that involves developing a policy initiative, proposing it to Congress, and winning the legislature’s support. Recent empirical findings indicate that, ...
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(2016-04-29)Bureaucrats play a major part in implementing government programs and—ultimately—take on a policy making role in many contexts given the broad discretion bureaucrats often have as they go about their work. Representative ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Based on attempts to gain access to bureaucratic organizations, and on subsequent study of the literature, this researcher came to believe that insufficient attention is given to this research step in the literature and ...
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(2021-08-02)Within contemporary institutions of higher education, bureaucracy is still a common practice. Likewise, student development is still a consistent outcome for those carrying out work in student affairs. Conflict arises ...
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(2021-04-22)The literature on collaborative public management has focused on studying how public servants create collaborative structures in their workplaces to achieve organizational goals. The emphasis of these studies has been on ...
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(2018-08-03)This dissertation seeks to understand the influence of non-governmental institutions on local public policy outputs. Within immigration policy, current shifts in the implementation of enforcement have allowed local law ...