The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration PolemicSAGE Publications, 2004 - 208 pages The Case for Bureaucracy persuasively argues that American public servants and administrative institutions are among the best in the world. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they are neither sources of great waste nor a threat to liberty, but social assets of critical value to a functioning democracy. In presenting his case, Goodsell touches on core aspects of public administration while drawing on important, recent events to bring case material and empirical evidence fully up to date. Updating worth highlighting:
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... Max Weber early in the past century . To Weber , a bureaucracy was an organization with specified functional attributes : large size ; a graded hier- archy ; formal rules ; specialized tasks ; written files ; and employees who are ...
... Max Weber himself . Although a tendency exists in the textbooks to portray Weber as a friend and proponent of bu- reaucracy , in fact , as a liberal activist in his contemporary Prussia he regarded it as a threat to parliamentary ...
... Max Weber lived , the American bureaucracy does not over- awe its citizenry and does not possess , to use Weber's term , " overtowering " political power . In the United States we have a Constitution , Bill of Rights , separation of ...
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