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The Political Economy of Bureaucracy: A Public Choice Perspective

In: The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa

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  • Jeffrey James

    (Tilburg University)

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Only partially addressed in Part I was a question of centrality to our argument which needs to receive separate attention: the importance of bureaucratic objectives. Part II attempts to fill this gap by a political economy approach and in particular one that pays special attention to the role of bureaucracy. We begin by examining the extent to which the public choice approach is able to explain the motivations and behaviour of those who manage state-owned enterprises in the industrial sector. Following a brief discussion of this approach as a whole, we suggest, on the basis of a number of applications, that one particular version is especially well suited to the explanatory task at hand. The concluding section then examines some of the implications for policy that are suggested by this way of viewing technological behaviour in the public sector.

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  • Jeffrey James, 1995. "The Political Economy of Bureaucracy: A Public Choice Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa, chapter 7, pages 147-177, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37719-6_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230377196_8
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