PAP 2300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scientific Management, Profit Maximization, Cronyism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: Christopher Cooper

Document Summary

What is public administration: field of study. Interested in the managerial practices and institutional values by which officials will enact the will of sovereign authority : set of administrative practices. Towards providing services through the public service. Capitalist society is marked by class conflict. The state (of which the bureaucracy is a key part) is relatively autonomous from the capitalist class, but the state ultimately serves capitalist class interest in long-term. Both society and bureaucracy struggle from hierarchical nature of bureaucracy. Class struggle revolution state withers away. Capitalist state functions to: state passes policies to make it possible for capitalist to make profits (accumulation, state passes policies to appease working class without interfering with accumulation of profits (legitimation) Prior to weberian, there was a lack of permanence and expertise inefficient, immoral. Hierarchy can generate lack of initiative and individual responsibility.