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What insights does bureaucratic theory give us about how government should be organised and what it should attempt to do?
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What insights does bureaucratic theory give us about how government should be organised and what it should attempt to do? What is the Bureaucracy? Public resource allocation on a national scale inevitably creates significant requirements for administration. Therefore, even adopting the minimalist or "Night-watchman" conception of the state, it is clear that some level of administrative civil service is an inescapable part of government. The ideal of the liberal-pluralistic-democratic conception of bureaucracy is of a permanent professional, meritocratic civil service, which is both anonymous and non-partisan, and serves as a source of balanced advise, and an efficient mechanism for implementing and administering government policies. Conceptions of Bureaucracy Though there are many differing conceptions of how a liberal-pluralist bureaucracy actually works, there is nearly universal agreement that in reality, the bureaucracy functions quite differently to the efficient Weberian ideal. Downs's pluralist model of bureaucracy stresses the organisational limitations of a hierarchical bureaucracy. 1) Officials at each stage...
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