Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cuban Missile Crisis, Graham T. Allison, Spoils System
19 Dec 2016
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Patrimonial administration: personal agents of monarch, rooted in royal household princes, baroness, counts, extended family of the monarch. Bureaucratic administration why: more damaging and dangerous warfare, more complex economy and society. Napoleon one of the first to develop modern administration in france: democratic pressures. Weberian bureaucracy: offices with assigned responsibilities, merit-based recruitment, advancement, division of labor people sti(cid:272)k to (cid:449)hat they"re (cid:271)est at, hierarchy, formal rules. Not every bureaucracy is the same: french centralization merit basis bureaucrats come through the pipeline to the top. March 16, 2016: us decentralization spoils, president decides. Not every bureaucrat is the same: specialists french stays in their specialization, generalists english float around. 20th century massive growth in: areas of state activity, administrative capacity. Rank problems, utilitarian more benefits, less costs, choose means to reach desired ends bureaucrats figure out what the problems are, what are the most important problems, what are the possible solutions.
