Governmental Bureaucratization

General Processes and an Anomalous Case

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2107052
AutoresJohn Markoff (0000-0001-6629-4417, University of Pittsburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año1975
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas479-503
Fecha de publicación1975-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500007970
OpenAlexW2042134778
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas48

If only everybody meant the same thing by 'bureaucracy'-or 'feudalism', 'Old Regime', 'capitalism', and so on, ad nauseam. If we all agreed on what these terms meant a good deal of paper might be saved. Since this is not even remotely the case, I had better begin by saying something about how the term 'bureaucracy' is to be used in the pages that follow. A government shall be said to be bureaucratized to the extent that it has come to resemble the organizational portrait drawn by Max Weber in Economy and Society. Weber's so-called definition is a list (or lists) of characteristics whose relative importance and relation to one another have stirred much debate

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