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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The Utopia of Rules (redirect from The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy)
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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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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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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Iron cage (section Effects of bureaucracies)
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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Michael Lipsky (section Street-level bureaucracy)
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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Jerry Pournelle (redirect from Iron law of bureaucracy)
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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Organizational theory (section Weberian bureaucracy)
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 (novel) (redirect from The Castle (Book))
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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Technocracy (redirect from Technocracy (bureaucracy))
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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Capitalist Realism (redirect from Capitalist Realism (book))
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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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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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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The Administrative State (section Ideals of the book)
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 Services of India (redirect from Indian bureaucracy)
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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Animal Farm (redirect from Animal Farm (book))
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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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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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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that business owners help create opportunity for others while federal bureaucracy does not have the power to create meaningful employment. Their strategy...
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