Bureaucratic ambition:careers, motives, and the innovative administrator/ Manuel P. Teodoro.
Physical description:
xv, 222 p. ill. 23 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.;
Author(s): TEODORO, Manuel P.;
ISBN:
9781421402451 (hbk.;
Subjects: Bureaucracy --United States.;
Public administration --United States.;
Local government --United States.;
Ambition --Political aspects --United States.;
Administrative agencies --United States --Management.;
Formatted contents notes:
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.;
Publisher:
Cambridge : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011.;
Call number: 351.73 TEO;
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