Bureaucratic Ambition
Manuel P. Teodoro
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Description for Bureaucratic Ambition
Its lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPP; KJMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration "entrepreneurs" do not profit from their innovations. What motivates enterprising public executives? How are they created? Manuel P. Teodoro's theory of bureaucratic executive ambition explains why pioneering leaders aren not the result of serendipity, but rather arise out of predictable institutional design. Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows how psychological motives and career opportunities shape ... Read more
Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration "entrepreneurs" do not profit from their innovations. What motivates enterprising public executives? How are they created? Manuel P. Teodoro's theory of bureaucratic executive ambition explains why pioneering leaders aren not the result of serendipity, but rather arise out of predictable institutional design. Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows how psychological motives and career opportunities shape ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421402451
SKU
V9781421402451
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About Manuel P. Teodoro
Manuel P. Teodoro is an assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.
Reviews for Bureaucratic Ambition
"Manuel Teodoro offers a whole new way of thinking about the motivations of policy entrepreneurs, tying the urge to innovate with career ambition. This book breaks new ground, and does so with an effective blending of new theorizing and new empirical work. This is sound scholarship that is original and exciting." (Michael Mintrom, author of People Skills for Policy Analysts ... Read more