The topic of reading for this week is Max Weber on Ideal Types & Idealized Bureaucracy. Students are expected to discuss the following questions based on the assigned reading.

ii. Why -for Weber- is bureaucracy good? How does this compare with our modern stereotype about bureaucracies & bureaucrats?

iii. Modern democratic public administration is built, more than less, on the Prussian model with veteran’s preferences, retirement pensions, mandatory retirement at age 65, civil service examinations, and obedience to rules and offices rather than office-holders. What is the implication for a democratic country of seizing upon an organizational model developed to further a military autocratic form of government?

The reading can be downloaded by clicking the following link:

http://www.studyplace.net/myfiles/academic-english/max-web-bureaucracy.pdf