Bureaucratic overburdening in advanced democracies.
Constant policy growth can overburden bureaucracies if implementation capacities are not expanded in lockstep with policy production. This development may undermine policy effectiveness and hence the long‐term legitimacy of democracies. This article provides a systematic analysis of this phenomenon....
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 84; no. 4; pp. 696 - 710 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2024
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