Public Entrepreneurship and the Teleology of Technology

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Abstract
Virtually autonomous bureaucratic actors pursuing technological goals are discussed in terms of the cultural and political beliefs in "autonomous technology." In this theoretical construct, examples are drawn from the history of space and defense projects in order to suggest some institutional relationships between the two streams of thought that comprise the title. It concluded that conventional theories of policy formation that presently dominate American politics and public administration are inadequate to account for either the entrepreneurial behavior of administrative actors or the "telic inclination" of certain large-scale public technologies.

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