The Public Administration Theory Primer

190 7: Decision Th eory to institutional decisionmaking assume that such matters are more amenable to management than evidence w ...

Conclusions 191 self-interest as the guiding norm; or (2) the street-level-worker model, which acknowledges discretion and assum ...

192 7: Decision Th eory also a close affi nity between the decision logic of appropriateness and modern institutional theory, th ...

Conclusions 193 institutions, and in such institutions the logic of rational self-interest is a poor guide for either power or f ...

194 7: Decision Th eory experimental psychology, have been made since the late 1990s primarily through experimental methodology. ...

Notes 195 on the notion of decisionmakers’ being cognitively limited. Whatever path public administration takes, we believe that ...

196 8 Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior Introduction: What Is Rational Choice Th eory? For public administration s ...

Introduction: What Is Rational Choice Th eory? 197 government with policy advice based on his intellectual labors (Buchholtz 199 ...

198 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior choosing “more rather than less” of their preferences. (2) Only individua ...

Th e Rational, Self-Maximizing Bureaucrat 199 In this chapter we briefl y examine the impact of rational choice on the three are ...

200 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior institutional environment, they pay little attention to the individual in ...

Th e Rational, Self-Maximizing Bureaucrat 201 of organization in shaping individual motivations, Downs proposed a series of gene ...

202 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior make a defi nitive claim that his or her conception of the civic good is ...

Th e Rational, Self-Maximizing Bureaucrat 203 center on claims that the underlying assumptions about individual behavior and the ...

204 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior bureaucracies act altruistically in pursuit of the public interest as the ...

Trust and the Irrational Bureaucrat 205 maximize their own self-interest, but managers can improve effi ciency. Tullock and Down ...

206 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior shirk responsibility. Identity-based trust is important because it reduce ...

Th e Self-Maximizing Citizen and the Tiebout Hypothesis 207 being exchanged, with whom, and by what mechanism is simply not as i ...

208 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior packages and could move to the location that best fi t their preferences. ...

Th e Self-Maximizing Citizen and the Tiebout Hypothesis 209 of fi ft een studies seeking to assess the impact of vertical and ho ...