Record Details

The Invisible Hand or What Makes the Bureaucracy Indispensable? A Short Theoretical Inquiry Into the Bureaucracy's Role in the Policy Making Process

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title The Invisible Hand or What Makes the Bureaucracy Indispensable? A Short Theoretical Inquiry Into the Bureaucracy's Role in the Policy Making Process
 
Creator HARUŢA, Cristina; Research Assistant, Institute of Social Researches,
Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication
Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
RADU (COBÂRZAN), Bianca; Assistant Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty
of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences,
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 
Subject —
 
Description In the study of public bureaucracy, an intrinsic preoccupation arises concerning the balance of policy making authority between politicians and bureaucrats. In this paper we attempt to show from a theoretical point of view that bureaucracies enjoy some degree of discretion over policy making via implementation, rulemaking and enforcement activities. According to many authors it appears that the bureaucrats are entitled as well to play the role of both partners and contributors in the public policy formulation process, even if sometimes their policy preferences do not overlap all the times with the preferences of their elected overseers.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2010-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/101
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2010: Issue No. 29 E/February; 62-70
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/101/97
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences