This is an extra credit assignment that may help improve your grade in the course (but you will have to work for it). To earn this extra credit, I expect you to submit a brief 5-page double-spaced reaction paper that synthesizes the readings below while addressing the following question:<\/p>\n
What explains the behavior of individuals in the federal bureaucracy? Who \u2013 if anyone \u2013 controls the bureaucracy?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Use the information learned from the text about theories regarding work motivation.<\/p>\n 2. Weingast and Moran, \u201cBureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control? Regulatory Policymaking by the FTC,\u201d <\/span>Journal of Political Economy<\/em> <\/span>(1983) 91:764-800 (FAMU Library Website)<\/p>\n 3. Terry Moe, \u201cAssessment of the Positive Theory of Congressional Dominance,\u201d <\/span>Legislative Studies Quarterly<\/em> <\/span>(1987) 12: 475-520 (FAMU Library Website)<\/p>\n 4. Mathew McCubbins, Roger Noll, and Barry Weingast, \u201cAdministrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control,\u201d <\/span>Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization<\/em> <\/span>(1987), Vol. 3, 243-277 (FAMU Library Website)<\/p>\n 5. Mathew McCubbins and Thomas Schwartz, \u201cCongressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols Versus Fire Alarms,\u201d <\/span>American Journal of Political Science<\/em> <\/span>(1984) 28: 165-179 (FAMU Library Website)<\/p>\n 6. Kenneth Meier and Lawrence O\u2019Toole, \u201cPolitical Control Versus Bureaucratic Values,\u201d <\/span>Public Administration Review<\/em>, Vol. 66, Issue 2 (March 2006); 177-192 (FAMU Library Website)<\/p>\n 7. Andrew Whitford, \u201cThe Pursuit of Political Control by Multiple Principals,\u201d <\/span>Journal of Politics<\/em>, Vol. 67, No. 1 (February 2005): 29-49. (FAMU Library Website)<\/p>\n Be sure to cite your work appropriately!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an extra credit assignment that may help improve your grade in the course (but you will have to work for it). To earn this extra credit, I expect you to submit a brief 5-page double-spaced reaction paper that synthesizes the readings below while addressing the following question: What explains the behavior of individuals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1122],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}