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Bureaucrats, politics, and the environment /

"Unseen federal bureaucrats regulate much of daily life in the United States, from the production of the materials in the cars we drive, to the contents of the hot dogs we eat, to the quality of the water we drink. Easy to criticize and difficult to understand, the complicated federal bureaucra...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Waterman, Richard W.
Autres auteurs: Rouse, Amelia A., Wright, Robert (Robert Lee)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2004.
Collection:University of Pittsburgh Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Bureaucracy: Perceptions and Misperceptions
  • Principal-Agent Models: A Theoretical Cul-de-Sac
  • The Nature of Bureaucratic Politics
  • An Examination of the Assumptions of the Principal-Agent Model
  • A Multiple Principal Model of Bureaucratic Politics
  • Bureaucrats' Knowledge of Their Budgets
  • The Myths of the Bureaucracy
  • Appendix: A Brief History of Water Pollution Legislation.