Bureaucratic ambition [electronic resource] : careers, motives, and the innovative administrator / Manuel P. Teodoro.

By:

Teodoro, Manuel P, 1972-

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Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 222 p. :) illContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781421403762
1421403765

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

351.73 22

LOC classification:

JS331 .T46 2011

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Contents:

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.

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