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Bureaucracy and Power without Responsibility
Author(s) -
Harfley Keith
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01754.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , manifesto , power (physics) , public administration , political science , variance (accounting) , management , law and economics , law , sociology , economics , politics , accounting , physics , quantum mechanics
The pressures on the politician frying to impfement his party's election manifesto are often at variance with the interests of the departmental bureaucracy he expects to design his policies. Dr Keith Hartley, Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of York, examines the direct interests of bureaucrats in their departmental budgets.