Original scientific paper
AMERICA-STYLE SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE USE OF MODELS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Charles F. Cnudde
; Faculty of Social Sciences, Florida State University, USA
Abstract
The author deals with the possibility of the application of the formalized models in the study of the public administration issue in the federally structured American administration. The theory of American federalism has taught us that the expenses of the implementation of political decisions are inversely proportionate to the administrative level of their application: the expenses are bigger if the implementation is done at lower administrative levels, i.e. state or local instead of federal authorities. On the other hand, that theory claims that the decision-making expenses are proportionate to the level of decision-making: the lower the decision-making level, the smaller the expenses. The American experience in the arena of the policy of oil and gas exploitation confirms the model’s rationale, and is applicable to other fields: the optimal effect and the minimal expenses have been achieved in the situation in which political regulations are decided upon at the state level, while their implementation lies within the domain of federal government.
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105676
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Publication date:
18.11.1997.
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