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Some of my best friends are bureaucrats. Some years ago, that observation led me to reflect why these bright, hardworking, and public-spirited people made such an awful botch of things. These personal qualities were clearly not sufficient to avoid either major error or an accumulation of minor errors. If government cannot be run well by “the best and the brightest”, what hope is there for a government run by us ordinary mortals?
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Niskanen, W.A. (1983). Bureaucrats between Self Interest and Public Interest. In: Hanusch, H. (eds) Anatomy of Government Deficiencies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21610-1_7
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