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Administration & Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, 131-138 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/009539977801000201

Myth, Magic, and Administrative Innovations

Roger H. Marz

Oakland University

An examination of the spread of administrative innovation through state and local governments which attributes the propensity to innovate to the unrequited search for certainty. This article borrows the framework of Mahnowski and the metaphor of magic to explain why governments adopt new procedures like benefit-cost analysis and zero-base budgeting and what the latent and manifest functions of such innova tions are.


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