1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791487103321

Autore

Brehm John <1960->

Titolo

Working, shirking, and sabotage [[electronic resource] ] : bureaucratic response to a democratic public / / John Brehm and Scott Gates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Mich., : University of Michigan Press, 1999, c1997

ISBN

1-282-75418-1

9786612754180

0-472-02738-7

Edizione

[1st pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Michigan studies in political analysis

Altri autori (Persone)

GatesScott <1957->

Disciplina

353.001

Soggetti

Bureaucracy - United States

Democracy - United States

Government productivity - United States

Local officials and employees - Professional ethics - United States

State governments - United States - Officials and employees - Professional ethics

Supervision of employees

United States Officials and employees Professional ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Bureaucracy and the Politics of Everyday Life; 2. Why Supervision Fails to Induce Compliance; 3. Foundations of Organizational Compliance; 4. The Preferences of Federal Bureaucrats; 5. Working and Shirking in the Federal Bureaucracy; 6. Working, Shirking, and Sabotage in Social Work; 7. Donut Shops and Speed Traps; 8. Policing Police Brutality; 9. Smoke Detectors or Fire Alarms; 10. Routes to Democratic Control of Bureaucracy; Appendixes; A. Models; B. Distributions; C. Estimates; References; Index