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100			_aSmith Kevin B.
245			_aPolitics, bureaucrats, and schools
362			_a54(6), Nov-Dec 1994, p.551-58
520			_aWill reducing bureaucracy improve education? According to Kevin B. Smith and Kenneth J. Meier, few ideas have swept the nation with such fervor as the proposal that if school systems would adopt public choice reforms student performance would improve. The authors reflect on Chubb and Moe's thesis calling for an elimination of bureaucracy and its harmful restraints. However, Smith and Meier use a precise measure of bureaucracy and find that bureaucracy is not related to three different measures of student performance. Their position is that bureaucracies develop because school systems need administrators and administrative capacity to function effectively. Reducing bureaucracy will impose administrative tasks on
650			_a Civil Service
650			_aBureaucracy
700			_aMeier Kenneth J.
773			_aPublic Administration Review
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