TY - CHAP
T1 - Political control or legitimacy deficit?
T2 - Bureaucracies' symbolic responses to bottom-up public pressures
AU - Alon Barkat, Saar
AU - Gilad, Sharon
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A large body of public administration literature focuses on the response of bureaucracies – whether government ministries or separate agencies – to political signalling, pressure and control. Building on principal–agent theory, this literature demonstrates politicians’ direct and indirect control over bureaucratic behaviour (for example, Moe, 1984; Wood and Waterman, 1991; Epstein and O’Halloran, 1999; Huber et al, 2001; West and Raso, 2013). Yet public bureaucracies are exposed not only to top-down political control, but also, increasingly, to direct bottom-up public pressure in the form of public opinion shifts and social protest.
AB - A large body of public administration literature focuses on the response of bureaucracies – whether government ministries or separate agencies – to political signalling, pressure and control. Building on principal–agent theory, this literature demonstrates politicians’ direct and indirect control over bureaucratic behaviour (for example, Moe, 1984; Wood and Waterman, 1991; Epstein and O’Halloran, 1999; Huber et al, 2001; West and Raso, 2013). Yet public bureaucracies are exposed not only to top-down political control, but also, increasingly, to direct bottom-up public pressure in the form of public opinion shifts and social protest.
U2 - 10.2307/j.ctvb1hrq8.8
DO - 10.2307/j.ctvb1hrq8.8
M3 - פרק
SN - 978-1447341437
T3 - New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
SP - 53
EP - 76
BT - Media and governance:
A2 - Schillemans, Thomas
A2 - Pierre, Jon
PB - Bristol University Press
CY - Bristol
ER -