Behind the Bureaucracy

Author: (USA) Downs / Guo Xiaocong et al
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is a classic work that analyzes the behavior of officials and bureaucratic organizations, offering an inside look into the inner workings of bureaucracy. It constructs a useful decision-making theory that helps people understand the behavior of bureaucratic organizations by analyzing officials' motivations, behavioral patterns, and other aspects, thereby improving the quality of decision-making. The authors categorize officials into five types: power climbers, conservatives, fanatics, advocates, and politicians. Based on this categorization, they analyze the impact of officials' motivations, goals, and behaviors on bureaucratic organizational decision-making, exploring the social functions undertaken by bureaucratic organizations and the influence of their environment on their structure, behavior, and decision-making.