Maybe it is time to rediscover bureaucracy. From: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Olsen, Johan P. | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Kansas. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

MAKING SENSE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Is "bureaucracy" an organizational dinosaur helplessly involved in its death struggle? Is it an undesirable and nonviable form of administration developed in a legalistic and authoritarian society and now inevitably withering away because it is incompatible with complex, individualistic, and dynamic societies? Are, therefore, the term bureaucracy and the theoretical ideas and empirical observations associated with it, irrelevant or d...

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