Bureaucrats and Clientele Groups
A View from Capitol Hill
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel D Aberbach, Bert A Rockman |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 818 |
| Publication date | 1978-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2110592 |
| OpenAlex | W2323354448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 9 |
Congressional fragmentation encourages and reinforces the development of tightly knit relationships between groups and federal agencies. Yet Congress also is responsible for regulating these relationships and ensuring that broader interests are represented in the administrative process. Interviews conducted with a random sample of members of the House of Representatives reveal that congressmen generally believe close administrator-clientele group relations are desirable, but that a problem of excessive influence also exists within the bureaucracy. An ordinal index combining normative and perceptual elements of congressmen's views regarding administrator-clientele links was developed. The index related consistently to congressmen's perceptions of how the political system operates, but neither consistently nor strongly to their party affiliation or ideology or to their votes on key roll calls which pit special interest claims against broader publics. We conclude that while Congress will continue to exhibit concern about group influence in the bureaucracy, it is more likely to respond by plying new interests into the administrative process than by insulating administrators from their clientele groups
Bureaucracy · Fragmentation (computing · Ideology · Interest group · Normative · Perception · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Publics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2009 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |