What Motivates Bureaucrats?
研究里根政府时期职业公务员如何响应政治任命上级的优先事项，基于对四个联邦机构的七十次访谈，揭示官僚动机与政策执行的关系。
Marisa Martino Golden has written an insightful study of the compliance of career civil servants with the priorities of their politically-appointed superiors during the Reagan administration. She conducted seventy interviews at four federal agencies that the Reaganites had targeted to have their authority and activities curtailed. The agencies have regulatory or social welfare missions, which Reagan and his appointees sought to cut back in their drive to reduce and reform regulatory activity by the federal government. They sought also to reduce the waste that they saw as rife in social welfare programs. Most of the Reaganites were very aggressive, anticipating resistance from the federal bureaucrats. While they varied in their orientation toward the denizens of the federal bureaucracy, most of the Reganites rode into the fray firmly convinced of the accuracy of the popular stereotype, often embodied in academic theory as well, of self-serving bureaucrats anxious to defend their prerogatives and power and to pursue a liberal agenda.