Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Spoils System, Actor Model, Constitutionalism
4 Feb 2016
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Patrimonial administration: (a) personal agents of monarch (b) rooted in royal household. Bureaucratic administration why? (a) more demanding and dangerous warfare (b) more complex economy and society (c) democratic pressures. Weber was a good student of china and india and the extensive empire bureaucracy. Offices with assigned responsibilities that have people with assigned tasks. There is a formal hierarchy within the workplace. 20th century massive growth in: (a) area"s of state activity (ex. Late 20th century/early 21st century new public management (a) contracting out: the idea that we want to encourage different services to be provided by the private sector for a smaller cost (b) quangos (c) performance incentives. How most people believe a decision should be made. Decisions made through small adjustments dictated by changing circumstances. Bureaucratic organization models: pays attention to impact that policy making process has on resulting decisions (a) no unified state different agency perspectives (b) short-termism, satisficing".
