POSC 475 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ethics, Energistics, Civil Disobedience
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The state has a right to use violence, state institution (police, military: one key aspect of politics as a vocation is the increasing bureaucratization of society. How bureaucrats, conscious of and obsessed with power exploited the system for their own ends. Bureaucracy tends to attract those who are most charismatic: having a vocation", means that there is an economic grounding to it, subsequently it is your way of living. Jobs should be given out on merit based on tests. Compared to democracy, the person in charge could appoint anyone they know, so they may have only be elected through loyalty or through network (connections). Efficient way of governing, corruption erodes that efficient. Civil servant- will know more, has learnt more, been doing it for a long time. Chancellor of the exchequer or the politician is just a diligence or a figure head, need to get elected.