Neglected US Military Missions: Contending Theories of Bureaucratic Politics and Organizational Culture and the Case of Airlift Mobility. PhD diss., Georgetown University. Washington, DC, 1996.Harrington, J. D., (1996) Neglected U. S. military missions: contending theories of bureaucratic politics ...
In many conspiracy theories, bureaucratic incompetence is often mistaken for conspiracy. Our government is so efficient, knowledgeable and capable — so the reasoning goes — that it could not possibly have botched the job so badly in detecting the plot ahead of time or responding to the attacks....
What is the theory of bureaucratic behavior? What is anomie theory in sociology? What is linguistic theory? What is neoclassical theory in criminology? What is feminist theory? What is contemporary sociological theory? What is positivist victimology?
Bureaucratic Theory Meets Reality: Public Choice and Service Contracting in U. S. Local Government Source: Public Administration Review STRATEGIC PLANNING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYTIC REVIEW* Source: Journal of Management Studies Rational decision-making and firm performance: the moderating ...
and the concomitant development, in all major institutional spheres, of specialized roles and of special wider regulative or allocative mechanisms and organization, such as market mechanisms in economic life, voting and party activities in politics, and diverse bureaucratic organizations and mechanisms in...
The strategies employed by most of the steppe polities were organizationally adaptive, utilized diversity, were militarily efficient, extracted resources, and were not highly bureaucratic. The degree of administrative centralization was variable and poorly correlated with long-term political stability. Not ...
The ONLY feasible way to curb the NSA is to curb its power, pretty much abolish it. Schneier’s political stripes are very obvious – we need “the right people,” especially “that right person.” That is a very bureaucratic way of thinking, and history is flush with telling us the ri...
contributions to existing theories of the developmental state: First, it shows that nationalists with a project of industrialization can decouple a key set of organizations sufficiently from other parts of the state apparatus to create an effective “pocket of efficiency” within a specific industrial...
Right-developmentasantipoliticsandself- perpetuatingintermsofactionandLDC statusandperpetuateselitesinpower(Bauer andFerguson) Lesotho Reference JamesFerguson,TheAnti-PoliticsMachine "Development,Depoliticization,and BureaucraticPowerinLesotho(Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress,1990) ...
actors, actions, interactions, bureaucratic structures, law and so forth, 2. mixed types , combining in varying degrees objective and subjective elements, examples include the state, family work world, religion, and 3. social construction of reality, norms values and so forth. Sociologists George ...