Budget Maximization is a bureaucratic theory positing that public agencies seek to expand their budgets to the maximum allowable level in order to increase organizational power, efficiency, and managerial utility, distinguishing it from mere fiscal growth by emphasizing intentional optimization of resource allocation within governmental constraints.
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Why The Government Budget Is Too Small in a Democracy
Anthony J. Downs · World Politics · 1960 · 310 citations
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London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
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Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, United States
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MIT University
Skopje, North Macedonia
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Knowledge Foundation
Stockholm, Sweden
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, United States
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General Electric (France)
Condé-en-Normandie, France
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Miami University
Oxford, United States
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Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
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- Public Choice
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JPART · 2 publications · 83 citations
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PAR · 2 publications · 89 citations
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