POLITICS, BUREAUCRATS, AND SCHOOLS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: SMITH, KB; MEIER, KJ
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.2307/976675
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 551-558
• 关键词: sat scores; performance; EFFICIENCY

摘要

Will reducing bureaucracy improve education? According to Kevin B. Smith and Kenneth J. Meier, few ideas have swept the nation with such fervor as the proposal that if school systems would adopt public choice reforms student performance would improve. The authors reflect on Chubb and Moe's thesis calling for an elimination of bureaucracy and its harmful restraints. However, Smith and Meier use a precise measure of bureaucracy and find that bureaucracy is not related to three different measures of student performance. Their position is that bureaucracies develop because school systems need administrators and administrative capacity to function effectively. Reducing bureasucracy will impose administrative tasks on street-level personnel (teachers) and will likely impair their performance rather than improve it.