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bureau shaping  

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  • Bureau shaping involves molding a bureaucracy in a manner that maximizes the utility of a rational self-interested official. Economic theories, in particular public choice theory, assumed an increasingly significant role in political science during the latter part of the twentieth century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Bureau Shaping]

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