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bureaucratic personality: a standalone construct

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bureaucraticpersonality1 CONSTRUCTBureaucratic personalityMERTON · PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

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Public administration

the rigid, rule-bound outlook that bureaucratic structures can produce in officials, leading to goal displacement.

In public administration, bureaucratic personality refers to the rigid, rule-bound outlook that bureaucratic structures can produce in officials, leading to goal displacement. This meaning comes from Merton (1940) in Social Forces.[1]

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bureaucracy3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, an efficiency claim and its oppositegoal displacement1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructdisplacement5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

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  1. Merton, R. K. (1940). Bureaucratic Structure and Personality. Social Forces, 18(4), 560-568. https://doi.org/10.2307/2570634

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