Bureaucratic ambition : careers, motives, and the innovative administrator / Manuel P. Teodoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teodoro, Manuel P., 1972-

Series:

Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management.

Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management

Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--United States--Management.

Administrative agencies.

Ambition--Political aspects--United States.

Ambition.

Bureaucracy--United States.

Bureaucracy.

Local government--United States.

Local government.

Public administration--United States.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Its lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators.

Contents:

Principles, principals, and ambition: the politics of bureaucratic entrepreneurship

Glorious heroes, tragic heroes, antiheroes: how bureaucratic entrepreneurship happens (or doesn't)

A theory of bureaucratic ambition: why bureaucratic entrepreneurship happens (or doesn't)

The market for bureaucratic entrepreneurs: career path and professional innovation

The psychology of bureaucratic entrepreneurship: human motivation and political advocacy

Ramps and ladders: how career systems foster or inhibit bureaucratic entrepreneurship

What bureaucratic ambition means for democracy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4214-0376-5

OCLC:

868974331