• Bureaucracy is a political book written by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises. The author's motivation in writing the...
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  • its governing body. Bureaucracy may also refer to: Bureaucracy, one of the five seasons of the Discordian calendar Bureaucracy (book), a 1945 political...
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    Bureaucracy (/bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/; bure-OK-rə-see) is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials. Historically, a...
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  • Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a 2015 book by anthropologist David Graeber about how people "relate to" and are influenced by bureaucracies. Graeber previously...
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    or by one of his representatives—operated the empire's administrative bureaucracy. State officials acted not as magistrates or elected public legates,...
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  • attitudes of Marx and Engels towards the titular topics the state and bureaucracy. He focuses on the Marxist theory of the state, how the state came to...
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  • representative bureaucracy is generally attributed to J. Donald Kingsley's book titled Representative Bureaucracy that was published in 1944. In his book, Kingsley...
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  • its completion", the number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be...
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  • Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America is a 1971 book by American historian Michael B. Katz. The book focuses on...
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  • metaphor of the iron cage because the bureaucracy is the greatest expression of rationality. Weber wrote that bureaucracies are goal-oriented organizations...
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  • Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement...
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  • public administration for his classic book about street-level bureaucracy. The concept of street-level bureaucracy was popularized by Michael Lipsky in...
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    his is "Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy": In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and...
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    theory of bureaucracy is Max Weber. In Economy and Society, his seminal book published in 1922, Weber describes its features. Bureaucracy, as characterized...
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  • opposite to bureaucracy. Warren Bennis coined the term in his 1968 book The Temporary Society. Alvin Toffler popularized the term in 1970 with his book, Future...
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    organizations to study how bureaucracy—the prevailing organizational form of our society—shapes moral consciousness" and that the book is "an interpretive sociological...
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    The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent,...
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    in a car accident. They learn the afterlife is a complex, overworked bureaucracy, and that they are required to haunt their old home for 125 years before...
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    Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin...
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  • hypothetical. In more practical use, technocracy is any portion of a bureaucracy run by technologists. A government in which elected officials appoint...
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  • ideology. Fisher points to areas such as climate change, mental health, and bureaucracy that can be highlighted to show the weaknesses and gaps in capitalist...
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  • they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal governmental bureaucracy. The project also seeks to infuse the government and society with conservative...
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  • rationalization and scientific management. Where Max Weber used the model of the bureaucracy to represent the direction of this changing society, Ritzer sees the...
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  • Yale University. In the book, Waldo argues that democratic states are underpinned by professional and political bureaucracies and that scientific management...
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    Civil War. The pigs' rise to preeminence mirrors the rise of a Stalinist bureaucracy in the USSR, just as Napoleon's emergence as the farm's sole leader reflects...
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  • Review stated that the book "documents the author’s attempts to preserve her individuality in the face of a gray, impersonal bureaucracy—one based around prisoner...
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  • corruption, says a new book by two economic experts. "How much do the corrupt earn?". The Economic Times. 11 September 2011. Indian bureaucracy ranked worst in...
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  • The Constant Gardener (category British Book Award-winning works)
    conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money. The plot was based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria. The book was adapted into a feature...
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  • Retrieved 18 July 2017. "Gingrich Predicts Cabinet Will Dismantle Federal Bureaucracy". Bloomberg BNA. 15 December 2016. Archived from the original on 16 December...
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  • with other distressed souls. After navigating the afterlife's complex bureaucracy, the Maitlands return home only to realize three months have passed and...
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