bureaucracy

Examples of bureaucracy in the following topics:

• Models of Bureaucracy

  • Bureaucracies have different type of models, depending upon their governmental organizational structure.
  • This is what's called an acquisition model of bureaucracy.
  • At the same time, monopolistic bureaucracy does not provide room for competition within each bureaucratic department.
  • It was Weber who began the studies of bureaucracy and whose works led to the popularisation of this term.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of authority according to Max Weber and how these relate to bureaucracy

• The Growth of Bureaucracy

  • Bureaucracy is a type of organizational or institutional management that is, as Weber understood it, rooted in legal-rational authority.
  • An example of bureaucracy would be the forms used to pay one's income taxes - they require specific information and procedures to fill them out.
  • Thus, bureaucracy simplifies the process of paying one's taxes by putting the process into a formulaic structure, but simultaneously complicates it by adding rules and regulations that govern the procedure.
  • Weber did believe bureaucracy was the most rational form of institutional governance, but because Weber viewed rationalization as the driving force of society, he believed bureaucracy would increase until it ruled society.
  • Society, for Weber, would become almost synonymous with bureaucracy.

• Bureaucracy

  • Bureaucracy may be defined as a form of government: government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
  • An example of bureaucracy is what is called a civil service job, which can be in a governmental service agency such as the Department of Labor or the Department of Defense.
  • Bureaucracy may also be defined as a form of government: government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
  • Weberian bureaucracy has its origin in the works by Max Weber (1864-1920), a notable German sociologist, political economist, and administrative scholar who contributed to the study of bureaucracy and administrative discourses and literatures during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
  • It was Weber who began the studies of bureaucracy and whose works led to the popularization of this term.

• Size of the Federal Bureaucracy

  • The size of federal bureaucracy has been steady despite the government's claims of cutting the role of government.
  • Political officials often pledge to shrink the size of the federal bureaucracy while at the same time enhancing its efficiency.
  • As a result, much of federal bureaucracy now consists of "managers managing managers. "
  • Throughout the 20th century, presidents have changed the size of bureaucracies at the federal level.
  • The reduction in red tape, essentially means the reduction of petty government (and occasionally business) bureaucracy.

• Public and Private Bureaucracies

  • Public and private bureaucracies both influence each other in terms of laws and regulations because they are mutually dependent.
  • In The New Industrial State, Galbraith argued that a private-bureaucracy, a techno-structure of experts who manipulated marketing and public relations channels, planned economic decisions.
  • Today, the formation of private bureaucracies within the private corporate entities has created their own regulations and practices.
  • Its organizational structure can be compared to that of a public bureaucracy.
  • However, private bureaucracies still have to comply with public regulations imposed by the government.

• Promoting Public Welfare and Income Redistribution

  • Americans vote for candidates whom they believe have their best interests in mind; American political candidates (and the bureaucracy they marshall) seek to implement policies that will support the welfare of the American public.
  • Following the stock market crash of 1929, President Roosevelt invested unprecedented governmental funds into the expansion of the executive bureaucracy in order to employ Americans and mitigate the extreme financial decline of the era.
  • He did so through the establishment of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid-- federal programs that exist to the present day that ensure certain levels of health care coverage for America's poor and elderly.The Great Society initiative further established educational programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts and generally deployed the executive bureaucracy to better welfare programs for the American public at large.

• Termination

  • A bureaucracy is a group of specifically non-elected officials within a government or other institution that implements the rules, laws, ideas, and functions of their institution.
  • Bureaucracy may also be defined as a form of government: "government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
  • A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.
  • Civil service reform is a deliberate action to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, professionalism, representation and democratic character of a bureaucracy, with a view to promoting better delivery of public goods and services, with increased accountability.

• Interest Groups vs. Political Parties

  • In most liberal democracies, advocacy groups tend to use the bureaucracy as the main channel of influence.
  • In liberal democracies, bureaucracy is where the decision-making power lies.

• The Bureaucracy

• Policy Implementation

  • ., a local official, or the President) to the relevant governing body within the bureaucracy that has the power to enact it.