Context-Specific Images of the Archetypical Bureaucrat: Persistence and Diffusion of the Bureaucracy Stereoptype

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12 December 2016

journal article
Published by Rutgers University - Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration in Public Voices

Vol. 7 (1) , 3-12
DOI:10.22140/pv.192

Abstract

This article demonstrates how stereotyping theory can help to explain citizens' images of government, and how, by approaching the stereotype of civil servants as a social norm, the image of civil servants is diffused and preserved.

Keywords

BUREAUCRACY
SOCIAL NORMS
SOCIAL DIFFUSION
CIVIL SERVANT
CIVIL SERVICE