Us bureaucracy news 2020

    • Who should study bureaucracy?

      The study of bureaucracy is often confined to senior-level bureaucrats but, given the expansion of the state to the delivery of core public services, it makes sense to include delivery professionals in health care, policing and education, often referred to as frontline providers who are also referred to as “street-level” bureaucrats.


    • Is bureaucracy just a collection of individuals?

      As the figure illustrates, bureaucracy is a system and not just a collection of individuals. The principal-agent relationships that we studied in the previous section are embedded within this system. We now move outside the “Department A” box in Figure


    • Does bureaucracy affect economic development?

      Viewing the effectiveness of bureaucracy through the lens of organizational economics thus provides a link between the body of micro-level studies and macro questions about how bureaucracies affect economic development. There is also scope for forming better con- nections across disciplines.


    • Can bureaucrat selection change the performance of a bureaucracy?

      Thus, affecting selection is a potentially powerful means of changing the performance of a bureaucracy. In view of this, it is not surprising that a large literature has emerged that looks at bureaucrat selection. It has two main strands. The first is concerned with how to attract the “right” talent to the public sector.


    • [PDF File]The Evolving Modern Presidency - Brookings

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      to win the 2020 election. The past ninety years have transformed the White House from a small, personalized office to a set of centralized bureaucracies (with



    • A Failure of Political Communication Not a Failure of ...

      [WHO], 2020). The virus causes a deadly respiratory disease that has been termed COVID-19. During the first months of 2020, the virus moved across the globe. The spread of the virus led the WHO to label the outbreak as a pandemic (WHO, 2020). As of April 2020, the virus has infected mil-lions worldwide, including close to a million individuals in



    • [PDF File]The Congressional Bureaucracy - George Mason University

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      Our findings allow us to intervene in a variety of heretofore unconnected debates. First, the congressional bureaucracy is a tool of separation of powers. Classic bureaucracy literature focuses on the tradeoff of control for expertise--the standard account is that Congress loses power when it delegates to the executive branch.


    • Trump, COVID-19, and the War on Expertise - SAGE Journals

      In a February 26th news conference, President Trump stated “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done” (Keith & Gharib, 2020). Again, a mere 2 days later, the WHO raised the global risk from coronavirus from high to very high (Keith & Gharib, 2020).


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