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• catalog abstract "John Brehm and Scott Gates examine who influences how federal, state, and local bureaucrats allocate their effort by working or shirking, or even by sabotaging policy. The authors combine deductive models and computer simulations of bureaucratic behavior with statistical analysis in order to assess the competing influences over how bureaucrats expend their efforts. Drawing upon surveys, observational studies, and administrative records of the performance of public employees in bureaucracies ranging from federal agencies to municipal governments, Brehm and Gates demonstrate that the reason bureaucrats work as hard as they do is the nature of the jobs they are recruited to perform and the influence of both their fellow employees and their clients in the public. The authors show that American bureaucracies work, and that the reasons bureaucrats perform as hard as they do has little to do with the coercive capacities of supervisors. Brehm and Gates show that the real limitations on the bureaucratic supervisor's ability to coerce performance from subordinates are the preferences of the subordinates. Fortunately for the public, those preferences are overwhelmingly consistent with the task that the democratic public expects bureaucrats to perform. This book is aimed at students of bureaucracy and organizations, and will be of interest to researchers in political science, economics, public policy, and sociology.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b10268716.
• catalog contributor b10268717.
• catalog coverage "United States Officials and employees Professional ethics.".
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description "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 -- App. A. Models -- App. B. Distributions -- App. C. Estimates.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog description "John Brehm and Scott Gates examine who influences how federal, state, and local bureaucrats allocate their effort by working or shirking, or even by sabotaging policy. The authors combine deductive models and computer simulations of bureaucratic behavior with statistical analysis in order to assess the competing influences over how bureaucrats expend their efforts. Drawing upon surveys, observational studies, and administrative records of the performance of public employees in bureaucracies ranging from federal agencies to municipal governments, Brehm and Gates demonstrate that the reason bureaucrats work as hard as they do is the nature of the jobs they are recruited to perform and the influence of both their fellow employees and their clients in the public.".
• catalog description "The authors show that American bureaucracies work, and that the reasons bureaucrats perform as hard as they do has little to do with the coercive capacities of supervisors. Brehm and Gates show that the real limitations on the bureaucratic supervisor's ability to coerce performance from subordinates are the preferences of the subordinates. Fortunately for the public, those preferences are overwhelmingly consistent with the task that the democratic public expects bureaucrats to perform. This book is aimed at students of bureaucracy and organizations, and will be of interest to researchers in political science, economics, public policy, and sociology.".
• catalog extent "x, 270 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Working, shirking, and sabotage.".
• catalog identifier "047210764X (acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Working, shirking, and sabotage.".
• catalog isPartOf "Michigan Studies in political analysis".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press,".
• catalog relation "Working, shirking, and sabotage.".
• catalog spatial "United States Officials and employees Professional ethics.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "353.001/02 20".
• catalog subject "Bureaucracy United States.".
• catalog subject "Democracy United States.".
• catalog subject "Government productivity United States.".
• catalog subject "JK768.4 .B74 1997".
• catalog subject "Local officials and employees Professional ethics United States.".
• catalog subject "State governments Officials and employees Professional ethics United States.".
• catalog subject "Supervision of employees.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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 -- App. A. Models -- App. B. Distributions -- App. C. Estimates.".
• catalog title "Working, shirking, and sabotage : bureaucratic response to a democratic public / John Brehm and Scott Gates.".
• catalog type "text".