Measuring the Degree of Bureaucratization at the Societal Level
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2553434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Parker Frisbie (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2576472 |
| OpenAlex | W4234075083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Bureaucracy as form and bureaucratization as process have long been central to organizational analysis. Yet, there have been few attempts to define degree of bureaucratization in terms that are operational and useful at the societal or cross-national level. In the present research, multiple indicators based on several structural dimensions of bureaucracy are developed for use when societies are the unit of analysis. The relationships among the indicators are empirically examined and shown to be consistent with familiar theoretical formulations. In the process, problems arising from definitional dependencies among complex variables are treated in some detail. Finally, employing conventional techniques of index construction, including factor analysis, a multivariate index of the degree of bureaucratization is derived that appears to be acceptable from the standpoint of reliability and validity criteria
Bureaucracy · Degree (music · Index (typography) · Physics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Process (computing) · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Sociology · Statistics · Unit (ring theory) · Validity · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Global Trade and Competitiveness · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Rise of Anthropological Theory
Correlation of Ratios or Difference Scores Having Common Terms
Presentation of Self in Appeals to Bureaucracy
The Division of Labor, Technology, and the Organization of Production in Twelve Countries
The Structure of Small Bureaucracies
From Max Weber
System Size and Structural Differentiation in Military Organizations
Multiple Indicators in Survey Research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 1982 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |