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Governmental Bureaucratization: General Processes and an Anomalous Case

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John Markoff
John Markoff
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University of Pittsburgh
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If only everybody meant the same thing by ‘bureaucracy’—or ‘feudalism’, ‘Old Regime’, ‘capitalism’, and so on, ad nauseam. If we all agreed on what these terms meant a good deal of paper might be saved. Since this is not even remotely the case, I had better begin by saying something about how the term ‘bureaucracy’ is to be used in the pages that follow. A government shall be said to be bureaucratized to the extent that it has come to resemble the organizational portrait drawn by Max Weber in Economy and Society. Weber's so-called definition is a list (or lists) of characteristics whose relative importance and relation to one another have stirred much debate.

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The Balkans in the next issue: The Formation of Bureaucracies
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , October 1975, pp. 479 - 503
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1975

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