How Public Administrators Empower Themselves

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Abstract

Public sector workers sometimes act against the wishes of management, to serve the public interest as the worker sees it. This behavior is called “guerrilla government”.This chapter examines the weaknesses of the best-known strategies for guerrilla government–whistleblowing and “speaking truth to power”--and documents lesser-known strategies that public sector workers have used successfully.

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