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- Title
PAPERWORK AND BUREAUCRACY.
- Authors
Bennett, James T.; Johnson, Manuel H.
- Abstract
This study explores paperwork as an inherent characteristic of bureaucratic behavior. The magnitude and scope of the federal government paperwork burden on the private sector is given particular emphasis. A theoretical model of bureaucratic behavior is developed which shows that bureaucrats employ paperwork to shift the cost of agency functions to the private sector in order to increase their perquisites of office. The model indicates that, if the private sector were compensated for the federal paperwork burden, agency employment would be smaller, as would agency output and the volume of private-sector labor expended in preparing federal forms.
- Subjects
PAPERWORK (Office practice); BUREAUCRACY; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 1979, Vol 17, Issue 3, p435
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-7295.1979.tb00541.x