Public Administration as Representative Bureaucracy

From Organizational Values to Organizational Roles: Examining Representative Bureaucracy in State Administration

We wish to acknowledge the assistance and support of this research, which has been provided by the Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina. We also express appreciation to Professor Hal G. Rainey for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. This is a revised version of a paper presented a...

Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy Pattern

The Bureaucracy pattern is a recurring design theme used to implement hierarchical object or component structures which allow interaction with every level of the hierarchy and maintain their inner consistency themselves. It is a composite pattern that is based on the Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Observer pattern. Composite patterns require new presentation and modeling techn...

Bureaucracy and Organizational Performance: Causality Arguments about Public Schools

and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts. Abstract One key policy dispute in the school choice debate concerns whether the education bureaucracy is a cause or a consequence of poor performance. This dispute is striking because both sides accept the same neo-institutionalist organization theory. This paper uses a large panel of school districts to address the dispute. T...

Government Value Paradigms - Bureaucracy, New Public Management, and E-Government

Representative Bureaucracy, Gender and Policing: the Case of Domestic Violence Arrests in England

Drawing on theories of representative bureaucracy theory, we examine whether increased representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic violence arrests. To do so, we use panel regression techniques to analyze the links between gender representation and variations in the arrest of domestic abuse perpetrators, when controlling for a range of other relevant v...