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Working out what makes people do what they do in the realm of politics is fundamental to working out how to make it in their interest to do better things.

The Dictator's Handbook

de Mesquita Bueno

A small study of such leaders (Newman, 2005d) suggests some of the ways in which public service actors exercise agency in the context of dispersed and fragmented fields of governance. Responses from career entrants on MPA programmes suggested how actors were engaged in reworking traditional rationalities – based on the bureaucratic ethos of office – to deal with the dilemmas raised by the current contexts in which they were working. Their attempts to produce a statement of an ethos of office for public service leaders were full of inconsistencies, evident for example in the different concepts of accountability that they deployed. What stood out was the idea of wanting to ‘make a difference’ through their work.

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

Mehta presented figures on such things as the number of trains the government had run and the number of meals served on them. But there was no clarity about how many migrants were still stranded across the country, or how many were still walking home. There was also confusion about transport arrangements: would stranded migrants travel for free or be reimbursed—and if reimbursed, how and by whom?

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's Sway Over the Courts

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