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Bureaucrats and Politicians
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“This competition among local governments is crucial for overcoming the budgetmaximizing behavior of bureaucrats (Niskanen, 1975) that contributes to a continually growing, revenue-maximizing Leviathan government (Brennan and Buchanan, 1980).”
From Regionalization and Consolidation of Municipal Taxes and Services (2018) · cites this paper as Niskanen, 1975
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Metadata
- Authors
- Niskanen, W. A.
- Corresponding author
- Niskanen, William A.
- Venue
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1975-12
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 617-643
- ISSN
- 0022-2186 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5285
- OpenAlex
- W2046823202
- Cited by
- 1,022
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 30 · 2012: 35
- FWCI
- 30.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Law and Economics (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Governance
- Social Sciences › Law › Administrative Law and Governance
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Keywords
- bureaucrats, politicians, bureaucracy, political economy, public administration
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- Niskanen, W. A. (1975). Bureaucrats and Politicians. The Journal of Law and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1086/466829
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Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
