What Is Bureaucracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11050235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claude Lefort (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 1974 |
| Issue | 22 |
| Pages | 31-65 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/1274022031 |
| OpenAlex | W2312960780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Although the concept of bureaucracy has fallen into the common domain of political sociology, theory of history, and public opinion, and has been sanctified to the success it has today, it has nevertheless remained so imprecise that it is still meaningful to question the identity of the phenomena it claims to describe. At first one is astonished at the diversity or ambiguity of the responses. But this is only a first impression. Bureaucracy appears as a phenomenon that everyone talks about, feels and experiences, but which resists conceptualization. Thus, rather than immediately attempting to provide a new definition or description, we will measure the difficulties encountered by theory, assume that they have a meaning, and from the very beginning critically examine what both motivates and perpetuates these difficulties
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Bureaucracy · Conceptualization · Diversity (politics · Economics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance · Psychology · Scottish History and National Identity · Social Psychology
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Bureaucracy, Contradiction, and Ideology in Two Societies
Organizational Contradictions in Public Bureaucracies
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| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2025 (50) |
| Highly cited | No |