Trends in British Governmental Bureaucratization and Sub-Bureaucratization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5633225 |
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| Authors | Paul K Mackal |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66 |
| Publication date | 1972-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/588157 |
| OpenAlex | W2333495557 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
For some time studies of bureaucracy, theoretical or applied, historical or sociological, have concentrated on the operational unity of a rationallegal system of authority, work habits, organization, and mobility. It has been noted that even infant bureaucracies are largely rational in means and that only a wider spectrum of positions at the top are traditionalistic in character. When a bureaucracy has not lived up to its full effectiveness most authors assume that this was due to (i) the influence of informal organization as a disruptive mechanism, (2) the effect of dynamic party forces, (3) the tensions of pressures placed on the system by the constituency, or (4) the lack of integration of the bureaucratic system. Yet one other possibility remains to be discussed in the literature, viz., subbureaucratization
Bureaucracy · Political science · Politics · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Scottish History and National Identity
| Highly cited | No |
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