The Public Administration Theory Primer

70 4: Public Institutional Th eory public and things private. Institutional theory has the particularly useful capacity to descr ...

Th e Basic Idea 71 most advanced thinking in contemporary public administration is being done by formal modelers using assumptio ...

72 4: Public Institutional Th eory Sixth, another group of institutional theorists who work from the rational choice perspective ...

From Organizations to Institutions 73 the public and private sectors, and these are refl ected in the diff erences between organ ...

74 4: Public Institutional Th eory the primary work on the distinctions between the two is done by a sociolo- gist. W. Richard S ...

Hierarchy 75 Hierarchy Th e distinction between organizations and institutions brings us to the subject of hierarchy. Second onl ...

76 4: Public Institutional Th eory may be in public administration, Mintzberg’s famous elliptical parsing has be- come the stand ...

Hierarchy 77 operating core is especially infl uential, universities being the obvious example. Th e divisionalized bureaucracy ...

78 4: Public Institutional Th eory structures of public administration. As we point out later, in Chapter 9, and as Hill and Lyn ...

Comparing Institutional Forms 79 activities—problem perception and defi nition involve the comparison of some pieces of informat ...

80 4: Public Institutional Th eory David Mayhew (1991) and Morris Fiorina (1996) argue that divided gov- ernments are as likely ...

High-Reliability Systems 81 mayor-council-form governments on separation-of-powers statutory platforms now have “chief administr ...

82 4: Public Institutional Th eory air traffi c controllers; local airport managers; commercial airline companies, in- cluding p ...

Low-Reliability Systems and Th eir Improvement 83 that are error-tolerant and that have goals that are diffi cult to measure (Ma ...

84 4: Public Institutional Th eory Child Left Behind Act treated local schools. Public schools are perhaps the an- tithesis of h ...

Garbage Cans and Rent Seeking 85 the just and equitable distribution of public service and life opportunities, and in citizens’ ...

86 4: Public Institutional Th eory rhetoric of performance, results, program evaluation, and outcomes. Institu- tional practices ...

Garbage Cans and Rent Seeking 87 (March and Simon 1993, 8). Appropriateness refers to a match of behavior to a situation. Th e m ...

88 4: Public Institutional Th eory Th e comments by Bendor, Moe, and Shotts are unlikely to improve our un- derstanding of polit ...

Th e Diff usion of Innovation 89 Wisconsin, and Illinois have been identifi ed by historian William Brock as the taproots of the ...