Political Science 2246E Chapter : Very detailed notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2246E
• Professor: Ross Gibbons

Document Summary

Academically, organization theory is often associated with schools of business management. Most organization theory originated from studies about how to improve the management of private sector organizations. Theories derived from business practices have bee adapted onto the public sector in an attempt to understand how government organizes itself. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries organizations became increasingly administered according to values of rationality, impersonality and efficiency. Influenced in his ideas about bureaucracy by the german philosopher hela. Concepts of class conflict and alienation were central to understanding bureaucracy. For hegel the bureaucracy represented a bridge between the state and civil society. The state represented the overall general or common interest. The state bureaucracy in hegel s view, was the medium through which the transformation of the particular interest into the general interest could take place. Marx rejected hegel s characterization of the state bureaucracy.