Bureaucracy Self-Examined
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6365458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marshall E Dimock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1944 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 197-197 |
| Publication date | 1944-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/972549 |
| OpenAlex | W2332278509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
ly preconceived response designed to influence people for or against something. Despite the propagandist use to which the word is put, however, it seems the part of wisdom for public administrators to give it a technically defined and delimited connotation, because it is a central concept in their professional life and equipment. If we were to discard a word every time it is used for propagandist purposes, there would eventually be a poverty of pivotal words, and we should have to relinquish such central symbols in our thinking as democracy and politics. Discussions about bureaucracy have come to have both national and international significance. In the forthcoming national elections this fall, for example, it is quite possible that bureaucratic meddling, meaning interference with private business, and bureaucratic incompetence, signifying the alleged inefficiencies of the federal administration, may be mentioned as often as any other term, nationalism and internationalism included. Varia
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1961 - 1981 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |