State Administrator Perceptions of the Policy Influence of Other Actors: Is Less Better?
研究州级行政官员如何看待自身及其他机构与外部行为者在政策决策中的影响力，发现他们可能希望其他行为者更多参与政策制定，而非传统认为的追求自身权力扩张。
The portrayal of bureaucrats as policy aggrandizers who seek to influence public policy at the expense of other actors is prevalent in the public administration literature. This article, focused at the state level, investigates the perceptions of one group of administrators about the influence matrix of agency policy decisions. It addresses several questions. Do administrators want more influence for themselves? Do they want more or less influence for other agency and external-agency actors? Is the influence matrix best described in zerosum terms? Finally, the article discusses the implications of empirical findings which suggest that administrators may want more policy participation by other actors than is commonly assumed.