This is the first book to develop a formal theory of supply by bureaus. Niskanen develops an original and comprehensive theory of the behavior of bureaus with t
The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristoc
Scholars, students and teachers of public economics will welcome this volume that, by making some of the key contributions in the field more widely accessible,
Thirteen scholars reexamine one of the most provocative and debated models of bureaucratic behavior, as developed by William A. Niskanen in his seminal book, Bu