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Modern Bureaucracy

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Max Weber believed that bureaucracy could be understood by analysing its ideal-typical characteristics, and that these characteristics would become more pervasive as the modern age advanced. Weber's horizontal account of bureaucracy can be criticised on various grounds, including its unrealistic notion of bureaucratic rationality. An alternative view is proposed, namely, that the development of state bureaucracies is driven by the trajectory of the high-power politics in which they are nested.

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  • John Toye, 2006. "Modern Bureaucracy," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-52, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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