PAP 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, Profit Motive

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2320
• Professor: Roger Rickwood

Document Summary

Classic theorists: pondered the effect on the power structure of society of the development of large scale organizations, karl marx. Bureaucracy medium through which transformation of the particular. Bureaucracy = universal class par excellence because it represented the. State = general common interest, universal class, medium through which. Rejected by marx, state bureaucracy no representation of general will but people in a set of relationships involving the exercise of power (bureaucracy motivated by the desire to climb the ladder for power, status, and prestige) Hierarchal structure meant that abuse from lower officials is redressed by superiors. Disagreed with bureaucracy as the universal element in society (interests aren"t universal, it is a special interest, not above personal interest, i. e power and positions) Rejected by marx, hierarchy more likely to abuse citizens than lower officials. Hierarchy leads to punishment of officials who commit offences against the hierarchy itself and protects the official when the hierarchy commits an offence against the people: alienation.