In an agency relationship, one party acts on behalf of another. It is curious that a concept that
could not be more profoundly sociological does not have a niche in the sociological …

Relationships among job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship
behavior, propensity for participative decision‐making (PPDM), and intentions to leave have …

Longstanding assumptions underlying strategic alliances, such as agency theory, are
actively being revoked by dynamics in the new economy. The mechanism of inter-firm …

What do public administrators and policy analysts have in common? Their work is
undertaken within networks formed when different organizations align to accomplish some …

A public service motivation (PSM) inclines employees to provide effort out of concern for the
impact of that effort on a valued social service. Though deemed to be important in the …

What kind of European Union do top Commission officials want? Should the European
Union be supranational or intergovernmental? Should it promote market-liberalism or …

Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working
democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental …

Students of politics have identified a variety of actors who appear to influence the federal
bureaucracy's implementation of public policy, including Congress, the president, and …

This series focuses on how the will of the people and the public interest are promoted,
encouraged, or thwarted. It aims to question not only the direction American politics will take …

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding
chapters of this book. The book argues that in a field as complex as public policy, simplifying …