Political Science 2246E Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Deliberative Democracy, Classical Republicanism, Bureaucracy

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2246E
• Professor: Joseph Lyons

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What is democratic administration: citizen empowerment leads to two central critiques of conventional forms of bureaucracy; the first critique relates to the issue of accountability; the second emphasizes the issue of participation. The origins of democratic administration: weber"s ideal type of rational-legal public administration is the dominant ideology of bureaucratic organization and authority in most liberal democracies, weber identifies a variety of criteria that include; The provision of fixed salaries to officials. It is not possible to remove all political considerations from public administration. The purpose of this restructuring is to have the state mirror the market. Liberal feminists may view the state in terms of whether it enhances or obstructs the goal of gender equality: the feminist analysis of the state embraces contradictory tendencies. While one stream of feminist analysis conceives of ways to transform the nature of the state, another conceives of new strategies for feminist representation in state institutions.