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100 1 _aTONON, Joseph M
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245 1 0 _athe costs of speaking truth to power :
_bhow professionalism facilitates credible communication
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University,
_capr. 2008
520 3 _aThis article examines how information or policy analysis can be credibly communicated between the bureaucracy and Congress. To investigate this issue, I develop a signaling model which shows that under certain circumstances—specifically when professionalized bureaucrats can impose observable costs on themselves that their politically inclined counterparts are unwilling to incur—credible communication between the bureaucracy and Congress is possible. A contribution of this article is that it provides a theoretical underpinning for the importance of professionalism and neutral competence in the bureaucracy as a means of promoting good governance.
520 3 _aA promise underlies public policy: if the actions we recommend are undertaken, good ... consequences rather than bad ... ones actually will come about. (Wildavsky 1979, 35)
520 3 _aThe "political master" finds himself in the position of the "dilettante" who stands opposite the "expert," facing the trained official who stands within the management of administration. (Weber, as quoted in Gerth and Mills 1958, 232)
773 0 8 _tJournal of Public Administration Research and Theory - JPART
_g18, 2, p. 275-295
_dNew York : Oxford University, apr. 2008
_xISSN 10531858
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