The great relevance of Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy for understanding modern public administration is insufficiently acknowledged. Critical examination of the claims made to support "new conventional wisdoms" in the study of public administration reveals a remarkable similarity in the arguments made against Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy. The currently fashionable public-values approaches replicate neoliberal arguments that downplay bureaucracy to conquer a place in the field. Such dogmatism leads to neglect of the ways in which modern Herrschaft (domination) affects individual freedom. This article clarifies how the relationship between Herrschaft and individual freedom is central to Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy and how this perspective is still useful to understand mo...
Introduction. II. Theories of Administrative Law and the War on Terror. A. Expertise and Discretion in Classical Theory. B. The Turn Towards Politics and Away From Capacity. C. War on Terror Scholarship: The Privileging of Politics and Rights. III. The Real id Act: Anti-Terrorism Through Adjudication. A. State DMVS and Drivers' Licensing. 1. The New Regulatory Scheme. 2. Fit. 3. Inexpertise. 4. Overdiscretion. 5. The Effect on Proxies. 6. Conclusion. B. USCIS and Political Asylum. 1. The New Regulatory Scheme. 2. Fit. 3. Inexpertise and Overdiscretion. 4. The Impact on Proxies. 5. Conclusion. IV. The Patriot Act and The Financial War Against Terror. A. OFAC and the Evolution of the Asset Freeze. 1. The New Regulatory Scheme. 2. Inexpertise. 3. Overdiscretion. 4. Fit. 5. The Effect on...
trend: Parents of autistic children may be moving to certain communities because the public school district has a good reputation for educating autistic children. Amity Superintendent of Schools John Brady said he is frustrated and shocked. His dilemma began last year when the district -- which serves Bethany, Orange and Woodbridge -- received a letter from the state Department of Education. The state told Amity it has too many white students who are diagnosed as autistic when compared to other racial subgroups. Amity last year had 38 white autistic students, one Asian and one black. Amity and Vernon are the only two school systems in the state and among only a handful nationwide to have a "significant disproportionate" amount of white autistic students, state officials said.
Based on the assumption that the study of public values cannot neglect the wider purposes of administration in society, this article discusses the diverging views of Weber and Hegel on the relationship between bureaucracy and freedom. They provide interesting Continental-European alternatives to the standard, liberal account so dominant in America. Although their accounts of bureaucracy are superficially similar, their conceptions of freedom radically differ, due to deep divergences in their political philosophies. While Weber has a concept of freedom as existentialist choice on top of classical liberal freedoms, Hegel instead has a more social concept of freedom. While Weber is particularly aware of the danger of Beamtenherrschaft (domination by officials), Hegel offers a constitutiona...
ALMOST every West Virginia politician vows to reduce the government payroll, and also improve efficiency of public agencies. As far as we can tell, none ever succeeded. Several governors appointed cost-cutting commissions, to little avail. But Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels may be a stellar exception. At the yearly Business Summit at The Greenbrier last week, he said he cut 11,000 jobs from his state's bureaucracy in the past six years, lowered the budget 25 percent, and also made government more effective.
Legislative relations is a difficult and delicate responsibility for the public administrator, given that it is at the nexus of what has sometimes been called the politics-administration dichotomy. Legislators might simultaneously want good service from the very bureaucracy they reflexively criticize. This article is a history of Congressional treatment of Defense Department legislative liaison offices in the second half of the 20th century, especially through an annual statutory spending limit that existed from 1958 to 1990. The narrative documents Congress's ambivalence whether to cut the budgets of these offices because they were part of the bureaucracy or to increase the budgets of such offices to assure fully funded services that legislators desire. These events indicate the diffic...
In our company, we call it 'DRASTIC,' which stands for 'Dumb Rides And Stupid Things Irritating Customers,"' he says. "I, myself, encourage every leader in the company that when dumb rules get in the way, bring it to my attention, and I'm going to help you to get to the customer. The customers should never suffer because of bureaucracy.
Virtual stores where people and small businesses can shop for health insurance plans were a key provision of the national health care reforms passed last year. Where Pennsylvania's shop will be built, and who will stock and run it have yet to be determined by state officials, including legislators, Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine and Gov. Tom Corbett's administration.
The Bush administration's "lessons learned" report on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina came and went with little fanfare in late February, which is unfortunate, because the report -- and the administration's overall view of the Katrina debacle -- says a lot about its relationship with the federal bureaucracy. While other investigations have criticized administration officials for being disengaged from the response process, White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend recommended putting even more distance between the president and federal officials on the scene of disasters. In her briefing, Townsend acknowledged the need for a better structure at the White House in the area of emergency response, to cut through the red tape and to referee any needless disputes...
The financial crisis in Europe has resulted in the appointment of new prime ministers in both Greece and Italy, in reality, by the Germans and French, rather than through the ballot box in Greece and Italy. This raises the question, "Is it possible to have both a bureaucratic welfare state and a democracy that protects individual liberties? In the United States, as well as most other countries, the people are increasingly governed and regulated by unelected bureaucrats who create "administrative law." The rise of the bureaucratic state, at least in the U.S., is only about 80 years old. The number of federal employees grew slowly over the first hundred years of the American Republic so by the time of the first Grover Cleveland administration in the 1880s, there were still fewer than 100...
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