The Public Administration Theory Primer

210 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior fully informed rational utility maximizers. All that’s needed is a critic ...

Th e Self-Maximizing Citizen and the Tiebout Hypothesis 211 is typical. Lowery et al. noted that school districts on Long Island ...

212 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior is not supported by empirical reality. In a public goods setting, Ostrom ...

Rational Choice as the New Orthodoxy 213 understand bureaucratic behavior and the production of public services but also as a no ...

214 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior expertise to become involved in deciding what policies to pursue and how ...

Rational Choice as the New Orthodoxy 215 (1962, 24). Given such a theoretical connection, Ostrom argued that rebuilding the inte ...

216 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior administration. Th e basic ethics of public service as established by the ...

Conclusions 217 administration. Market values and democratic values are not interchangeable equivalents, and rational choice fav ...

218 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior of how to distribute welfare benefi ts. Rational choice theory would sugg ...

Conclusions 219 could be harnessed for the collective good, but even he made no claims that this was a universal possibility. If ...

220 8: Rational Choice Th eory and Irrational Behavior review of the number of journal articles, and even journals (e.g. Organiz ...

Notes 221 Summary As discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 7, the tenets of rational choice the- ory, as conceived by neoclas ...

222 9 Th eories of Governance Introduction: Public Administration’s Need for a Th eory of Governance During the last quarter-cen ...

Introduction: Public Administration’s Need for a Th eory of Governance 223 Th at stability was irretrievably upset by the worldw ...

224 9: Th eories of Governance Th is expansion of public administration’s scholarly arena is refl ected in an increasing interes ...

A New Model of Governance 225 be used as a descriptive term for interjurisdictional relationships between public and private act ...

226 9: Th eories of Governance understanding this variation help fashion better public administration and man- agement strategie ...

A New Model of Governance 227 organization, and structure its relationships with external actors. Th e second is the study of ne ...

228 9: Th eories of Governance Lynn et al.’s concept and model of governance underpin their call for an ambi- tious research age ...

Governance as the New Public Management 229 and empirically addressed the governance of public policies and contributed to impro ...