Controlling Bureaucracies

Gruber, Judith E.

doi:10.1525/9780520330351

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“…Operational definitions have not been proposed by many authors writing on electronic democracy (Beetham, 1993;Chapman & Hunt, 1987;Cleveland, 1985;Goddard & Riback, 1998;Grossman, 1995;Osborne & Gaebler, 1992;). "Demystification" of public agencies (Lipsky, 1980), citizen access (Gentot, 1994) and entitlement to organization information, particularly on citizens' rights (Gruber, 1987) are the main contributions to the question of positive approaches to openness. Negative approaches' emphasis that openness is not always in the interest of public organizations (Martin, 1995;Montgomery & Overby, 1991;Sadofsky, 1990;Weber, 1946;Weiss, 1993), because it can lead to reducing organizational latitude in carrying out its mission in the context of tight resources and bureaucratic conflict.…”

Section: Cross-national Comparison Of Web Site Opennessmentioning

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Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web

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Demchak

Jong

2002

Administration & Society

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The foundations for governance in an information age are developing through the World Wide Web as it becomes the principal electronic public gateway into government organizations. Governmental openness is now important to a variety of strategies for governmental reform. The Web (a) makes government more efficient; (b) facilitates the functioning of new network-like arrangements between public organizations, the private sector, and citizens; and (c) empowers citizens to play a stronger role in interacting with government. We describe the concept of organizational openness and summarize a methodology to measure it on a worldwide basis. Data from 1997 through 2000 are presented, showing rapid diffusion of the Web and variation in levels of openness, even across countries with similar levels of economic and political development. Bureaucracies adopt Web technologies as a function not of traditional diffusion processes, but of emergent institutional isomorphism. Short-term prospects for responsive government improve, but so do unrealistic expectations affecting government legitimacy.

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Section: Cross-national Comparison Of Web Site Opennessmentioning

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Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web

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Demchak

Jong

2002

Administration & Society

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“…3. Similar studies find that whenever politicians heed the advice of agency actors, their efforts often result in effective and representative policy making (Gruber, 1987;. 4.…”

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Agency Input as a Policy-Making Tool

Villalobos

2012

Administration & Society

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This study posits a theoretical framework for understanding the role and value of agency input in presidential-legislative policy making. The author asserts that by using agency input for policy development, presidents instill their proposals with a degree of bureaucratic objectivity, expertise, process transparency, and agency support, which aids their legislative passage while lowering the extent of changes made to policy substance in the process. To test his hypotheses, the author conducts binary and ordered logistic regression analyses using pooled cross-sectional data across 12 administrations from 1949 to 2010. The author finds that agency input serves as a key component for increased presidential-legislative success.

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“…We have therefore developed such a typology on the basis of regulatory problems described from a variety of academic perspectives. These include the literatures on accountability (Day and Klein, 1987b;Gruber, 1988), political science research on the relationship between politicians and of cials (Wood and Waterman, 1991), public choice theories of bureaucratic behaviour (Blais and Dion, 1992), economic models of interactions between principals and agents (Barrow, 1996) and research on policy implementation (Bardach, 1977). Such sources point to ve problems of any regulatory instrument, including inspection.…”

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The Evaluation of Public Service Inspection: A Theoretical Framework

2002

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Inspection is an important and growing element of the regulation of public services. We develop a theoretical framework for the evaluation of inspection and illustrate the practical relevance of this framework with reference to the new Best Value inspectorate for UK local government. The framework contains three elements that facilitate the effectiveness of an inspection system (a director, a detector and an effector), five potential problems that impede its effectiveness (resistance, ritual compliance, regulatory capture, performance ambiguity and information gaps) and a pivotal mediating variable which is the expertise of inspectors. We combine these variables into a matrix that can be used as a checklist for the evaluation of inspection and we identify hypotheses concerning the circumstances that lead to successful inspection outcomes.

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Controlling Bureaucracies

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Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web

Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web

Agency Input as a Policy-Making Tool

The Evaluation of Public Service Inspection: A Theoretical Framework

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