budget-maximizing model

In his work he proposed the budget-maximizing model.

The Bureau-shaping model has been developed as a response to the Budget-maximizing model.

His chief contribution to public choice theory was the budget-maximizing model - the notion that bureaucrats will attempt to maximize their agency's budget and authority.

In 1971, Professor William Niskanen proposed a rational choice variation which he called the "budget-maximizing model".

Budget-maximizing model is an influential new stream of public choice theory and rational choice analysis in public administration inaugurated by William Niskanen, in 1971.

In contrast, public choice theory modeled government as made up of officials who, besides pursuing the public interest, might act to benefit themselves, for example in the budget-maximizing model of bureaucracy, possibly at the cost of efficiency.