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Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2020 In this introduction we explain the overall approach taken in this special issue. It is the collective result of a working group of historians who focus on very different periods and regions, such as the medieval Latin West, Spanish America, Qing China, and the Ottoman Empire.
Felten, S., Oertzen, C.
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Annual Review of Economics, 2021 In recent years, there has been increasing interest in whether and how bureaucratic effectiveness contributes to development. Just what makes for an effective bureaucracy and what are the building blocks of state capacity remain subject to debate. This article reviews the arguments connecting contemporary research using administrative data and field ...
Robin Burgess +3 more
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, 2021 Public bureaucracies have mostly been invisible in research on political communication, but more recently, there has been an increasing interest in their communicative efforts.
Figenschou, Tine Ustad +3 more
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Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2019 In recent years, local government has been undergoing changes which are strongly influenced by the growing digitization of governmental operations. In this paper, we expand on the concepts of Digital Era Governance and its successor, Essentially Digital Government, by introducing the concept of Algorithmic Bureaucracy, which looks at the impacts of ...
Vogl, TM +3 more
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, 2021 The term Weberian bureaucracy refers to Max Weber’s (1864–1920) ideal type (or model) of rational bureaucracy, published in Economy and Society posthumously in 1921/22 by his wife Marianne Weber. His ideal type of bureaucracy consists of a number of organizational features of administrative order.
Sager, Fritz, Rosser, Christian
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QJM, 2003 Hands up those who think that research ethics committees are doing a good job. Do not expect to see Drs Maskell, Jones and Davies waving. Last month in the QJM, they reported what happened while they were setting up a multicentre study of intrapleural streptokinase.1 They reckoned that the local investigators spent 62 hours photocopying to produce the ...
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Review of African Political Economy, 1982 Algeria has a form of ‘state capitalism’ and thus the role of the bureaucracy is crucial. The approach here to this question rejects as simplistic the two polar views: on the one hand, the belief that Algeria is undergoing some kind of transition to socialism and though there may be a ‘problem of bureaucracy’, this is treated outside the class ...
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From Weberian Bureaucracy to Networking Bureaucracy [PDF]
Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review, 2019 Max Weber viewed organizational bureaucracy as one of the inevitable premises for genesis of capitalism, and his concept of bureaucracy has been the authoritative instrument in the analysis of organizations for many years. The Fordist Modern social organization cannot be imagined without bureaucratic organization.
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, 2019 This chapter argues that discretion should be seen not only as an inevitable but also a potentially highly beneficial feature of bureaucratic organization. Taking a Weberian view of bureaucracy, we make two case-based arguments. First, we suggest that discretion is an invaluable characteristic of administrative office-holding to such an extent that ...
Pedersen, Kirstine Zinck, du Gay, Paul
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