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The Budget-maximizing Bureaucrat: Appraisals and Evidence. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, December, 1993 by Wood, B. Dan
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In this volume, Blais and Dion assemble eleven essays by notable authors appraising past and present research that tests William Niskanen's influential theory of budget interactions between bureaucracies and legislatures. The essays are revised versions of invited papers delivered at a conference held at the University of Montreal in April 1989. The various essays review existing literature, suggest interesting hypotheses, and also present some original empirical research on bureaucracy and budgets.
The first chapter, authored by William Niskanen, reassesses the positive theory of ...
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