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Author Teodoro, Manuel P., 1972-

Title Bureaucratic ambition : careers, motives, and the innovative administrator / Manuel P. Teodoro.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
Subject Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.
Ambition -- Political aspects -- United States.
Bureaucracy -- United States.
Local government -- United States.
Public administration -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781421402451
9781421403762 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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