Mercati istituzionali alternativi: un modello burocratico 'a catena breve' come superamento dei modelli 'a catena lunga

The work focuses on the behaviors of the four actors of public economy, namely bureaucrats, politicians, voters-taxpayers, control agents, and sets them in two alternative institutional contexts defined as “long chain” and “short chain” models respectively. By drawing two typically “long chain” bureaucratic models – the weberian and the niskanenian – and showing that both are supply-led and characterized by an oversized bureaucracy, the paper introduces the "short chain" model as an alternative to limit bureaucrats’ and politicians’ power. The paper presents also a specific interest in analyzing the role the control agent plays in the two models.