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goal displacement: a standalone construct

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Public administration

the process by which following rules becomes an end in itself in bureaucracies, displacing the goals the rules were meant to serve.

In public administration, goal displacement refers to the process by which following rules becomes an end in itself in bureaucracies, displacing the goals the rules were meant to serve. This meaning comes from Merton (1940) in Social Forces.[1]

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bureaucratic personality1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructbureaucracy3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, an efficiency claim and its oppositedisplacement5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

  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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