Working Shirking and Sabotage or The Legal and Regulatory Environment of E Business

Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public

Author: John O Brehm

Bureaucrats perform most of the tasks of government, profoundly influencing the daily lives of Americans. But who, or what, controls what bureaucrats do?

John Brehm and Scott Gates examine who influences whether federal, state, and local bureaucrats work, shirk, or sabotage policy. The authors combine deductive models and computer simulations of bureaucratic behavior with statistical analysis in order to assess the competing influences over how bureaucrats expend their efforts. Drawing upon surveys, observational studies, and administrative records of the performance of public employees in a variety of settings, Brehm and Gates demonstrate that the reasons bureaucrats work as hard as they do include the nature of the jobs they are recruited to perform and the influence of both their fellow employees and their clients in the public. In contrast to the conclusions of principal-agency models, the authors show that the reasons bureaucrats work so hard have little to do with the coercive capacities of supervisors.

This book is aimed at students of bureaucracy and organizations and will be of interest to researchers in political science, economics, public policy, and sociology.

"This book is breathtaking in its use of models and techniques. . . . The approach developed by Brehm and Gates allows us to re-open empirical questions that have lain dormant for years." --Bryan D. Jones, University of Washington

John Brehm is Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University. Scott Gates is Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Bureaucracy and the Politics of Everyday Life	1
2	Why Supervision Fails to Induce Compliance	25
3	Foundations of Organizational Compliance	47
4	The Preferences of Federal Bureaucrats	75
5	Working and Shirking in the Federal Bureaucracy	93
6	Working, Shirking, and Sabotage in Social Work	109
7	Donut Shops and Speed Traps	131
8	Policing Police Brutality	149
9	Smoke Detectors or Fire Alarms	173
10	Routes to Democratic Control of Bureaucracy	191
App. A	Models	205
App. B	Distributions	217
App. C	Estimates	227
	References	247
	Index	263

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The Legal and Regulatory Environment of E-Business: Law for the Converging Economy

Author: John W Bagby

This new hybrid book integrates both e-commerce and traditional legal environment issues, serving as a bridge between the two by covering the legal environment of business and its extensions into e-commerce. The text fulfills the need for greater understanding of the role of law, regulation, and public policy. A major focus is on how existing laws will accommodate the transition and on what issues new perspectives are needed from legislation, regulation, judicial interpretation, private contracting, industry self-regulation and public policy.

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Integrating traditional legal environment topics with in-depth coverage of e-commerce issues, this text looks at how existing laws accommodate the transition to e-business, what new perspectives are needed in legislation, judicial interpretation, and public policy, and the historical, social, political, and economic context of legal issues. Each chapter contains several excerpted real cases highlighting traditional legal and e-commerce concerns. Chapters are in sections on the legal system, private law, e-commerce, intellectual property, and regulation. Bagby is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University. McCarty is affiliated with Western Michigan University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)