caa a22 4500 605455104 CHVBK 20210128100210.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10602-014-9177-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10602-014-9177-8 Paldam Martin Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus University, Fuglesangs Allé 4, Building 2632 (L), 8210, Århus V, Denmark aut The public choice of university organization: a stylized story of a constitutional reform [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Paldam] The essay presents and explains a highly stylized story of the reactions of the structure of a university to a constitutional reform—in the university law—that radically changed the power structure from a bottom-up representative system to a top-down hierarchical system practically without checks and balances. It was meant as a more business-like system to increasing effectiveness. However, the result has been precisely the reverse. Both the (relative) size and the salaries of the bureaucracy have increased, while its effectiveness has fallen. The bureaucracy has grown particularly fast in the special service bureaus outside the normal structure and in the PR-department. It is shown that these outcomes correspond to the predictions of public choice theory, notably that of Niskanen's theory of bureaucracy. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 University reform nationallicence Bureaucratic growth nationallicence Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/2(2015-06-01), 137-158 1043-4062 26:2<137 2015 26 10602 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-014-9177-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-014-9177-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Paldam Martin Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus University, Fuglesangs Allé 4, Building 2632 (L), 8210, Århus V, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/2(2015-06-01), 137-158 1043-4062 26:2<137 2015 26 10602