Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society

Bibliographic Data

ID23140481
AuthorsMichael Reed (corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages115-140
Publication date2005-03-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe values of bureaucracy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199275458.003.0006
OpenAlexW1530456528
Open LibraryOL17930005M
ISBN9780199275458
LanguageEN
Citations received13

The imminent collapse of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of modern social and political theory. On both the right and the left of the ideological and intellectual spectrum, bureaucratic organization has been generally viewed as, at best, a necessary evil that will inevitably fade away as the ‘progressive democratic dynamic’ inherent in historical change imposes itself on the logic and trajectory of socio­economic development. Thus, a neo­ liberal management theorist such as Bennis, a neo­liberalist economist such as Schumpeter, a social democrat such as Schumacher, a neo­ corporatist such as Elias, a technological determinist such as Bell or Castells, and a theorist of radical participatory democracy such as Illich, can all agree that the underlying currents of history will

Bureaucracy · Capitalism · Democracy · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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