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Working, shirking, and sabotage : bureaucratic response to a democratic public / John Brehm and Scott Gates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brehm, John, 1960-
- Series:
- Michigan studies in political analysis.
- Michigan studies in political analysis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bureaucracy--United States.
- Bureaucracy.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Government productivity--United States.
- Government productivity.
- Local officials and employees--Professional ethics--United States.
- Local officials and employees.
- State governments--United States--Officials and employees--Professional ethics.
- State governments.
- Supervision of employees.
- United States--Officials and employees--Professional ethics.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, 1999, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines who influences how federal, state, and local bureaucrats allocate their efforts.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; 1. Bureaucracy and the Politics of Everyday Life; 2. Why Supervision Fails to Induce Compliance; 3. Foundations of Organizational Compliance; 4. The Preferences of Federal Bureaucrats; 5. Working and Shirking in the Federal Bureaucracy; 6. Working, Shirking, and Sabotage in Social Work; 7. Donut Shops and Speed Traps; 8. Policing Police Brutality; 9. Smoke Detectors or Fire Alarms; 10. Routes to Democratic Control of Bureaucracy; Appendixes; A. Models; B. Distributions; C. Estimates; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-75418-1
- 9786612754180
- 0-472-02738-7
- OCLC:
- 923503471
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