Weber's scorecard : state development, bureaucracy, and officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne /
Max Weber's influential understanding of bureaucracy is explored through an examination of the development of officialdom in six European territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Taking a long-term perspective from the ninth century to the present, it looks beyond nati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Max Weber's influential understanding of bureaucracy is explored through an examination of the development of officialdom in six European territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Taking a long-term perspective from the ninth century to the present, it looks beyond national institutions and includes officials involved in the provision of goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, Weber's scorecard appears to have a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. The study goes on to set out an account of administrative development based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198904281 0198904282 9780198904304 0198904304 9780198904298 0198904290 |