Weber's Scorecard State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe si : State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne - Edward C. Page

Weber's Scorecard State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe si

State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne

By: Edward C. Page

Hardcover | 30 December 2024

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This book examines Max Weber''s understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing 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, the book reveals that Weber''s scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.

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