PAP 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bureaucracy, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

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Bureaucracy: etymology: the rule of the of ce. Two meanings: an organizational structure, the professional institution carrying out the government"s policy decisions. Ideal-type weberian bureaucracy: hierarchy: each of ce has a clearly de ned sphere of competence (division of labour) organized in a xed hierarchy (answers to a superior, continuity: full time work, which constitutes a career. 3: expertise: personnel are selected on the basis of merit; keep records and have access to. Impersonality: behaviour based on predetermined written rules this information. Bureaucracy: interested in the means via government objectives are realized. Politics-administration dichotomy: woodrow wilson- president of princeton university but also the 28th president of the usa. Administration: appointed public servants, means of realizing objectives (how, empirical. Bureaucracy: rational-legal legitimacy: ef cient (hierarchy, accumulation of knowledge (continuity and written records-expertise, accountable (obligation to explain your actions) (hierarchy and written records, universal treatment of citizens, institution.

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