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Unbureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis: Rule-Breaking by Public Administrators

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Review of Public Personnel Administration: The Journal of Public Human Resource Management

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Abstract

Review of Public Personnel Administration, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 481-506, September 2026.
During crisis management, public administrators typically adjust bureaucratic rules to become more flexible. In this paper, we go one step further, asking about the factors that explain rule-breaking behavior among public servants during crisis ...