Drawing new boundaries: Can we legislate for administrative behaviour?
A central question of public administration is how public administrators make decisions within organisational frames and context. Public administrators cannot and do not make purely rational decisions based on means-ends models, and instead operate within bounded rationality. Motivational bounds are frequently implicit and culturally inculcated, but recent New Zealand legislation attempts to make these explicit.
Drawing new boundaries: Can we legislate for administrative behaviour?
Authors: Rodney Scott, Eleanor Merton, Michael Macaulay
Format: Conference paper
Date published: 1 December 2020