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Bureaucracy and Economic Development
Working paper
Christopher Clague
December 1994 |
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| Organizations differ greatly in thier effectiveness. In some schools, teachers teach, students learn, parents participate and needed educational materials are provided, while in others, classrooms are disorderly, materials are scarce and little learning takes place. Similarly, in some armies soldiers fight effectively while in’others they avoid contact with the enemy where possible and disintegrate when such contact occurs. Similar contrasts in organizational performance appear in tax collection agencies, irrigation maintenance organizations, agricultural extension services, prisons and many other types of government organizations. The literature on organizations indicates that there is a remarkable degree of persistence in the performance of particular organizations; the ones that are excellent tend to remain so and it seems to be very difficult (though not always impossible) to reform poorly functioning organizations. |
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