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100			_aBowling, Cynthia
245			_aEstablishing a continuum from minimizing to maximizing bureaucrats: state agency head preferences for governmental expansion - a typology of administrator growth postures, 1964-98
260			_c2004
300			_ap.489-99.
362			_aJul-Aug
520			_aScholars have long suspected the blanket description of bureaucrats as "budget maximizers" is simplistic and inaccurate. This article provides empirical grounds for questioning that description and enhances our understanding of bureaucratic fiscal preferences. Bureaucratic preferences for expansion are distributed along a continuum. A typology of agency heads' expansion preferences is developed and related to Downs's typology of bureaucrats. Data from eight surveys of state agency heads (1964-98) enable us to trace administrators' preferences for expansion over four decades. These preferences vary substantially in any single survey year and reflect trends across these years. Notably, a substantial proportion of agency heads opted for no expansion in their own agency's programs and expenditures or in the state's overall budget. This typology challenges conventional conceptions of bureaucrats' maximizing preferences, advances alternative interpretations about budget minimizing, and fills an important gap in budget and bureaucracy theory. - Reproduced.
650			_aCivil service
700			_aWright, Deil S.
700			_aCho, Chung-Lae
773			_aPublic Administration Review
909			_a61709
999			_c61709 _d61709