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Bureaucratic ambition

Teodoro, Manuel P., 1972-

Bureaucratic ambition careers, motives, and the innovative administrator / [electronic resource] : Manuel P. Teodoro. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xv, 222 p. :) ill. ; - Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management . - Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles, principals, and ambition: the politics of bureaucratic entrepreneurship -- Glorious heroes, tragic heroes, antiheroes: how bureaucratic entrepreneurship happens (or doesn't) -- A theory of bureaucratic ambition: why bureaucratic entrepreneurship happens (or doesn't) -- The market for bureaucratic entrepreneurs: career path and professional innovation -- The psychology of bureaucratic entrepreneurship: human motivation and political advocacy -- Ramps and ladders: how career systems foster or inhibit bureaucratic entrepreneurship -- What bureaucratic ambition means for democracy.

9781421403762 1421403765




Administrative agencies--Management.--United States
Ambition--Political aspects--United States.
Local government--United States.
Public administration--United States.
Bureaucracy--United States.


Electronic books.

JS331 / .T46 2011

351.73