Concept Of Bureaucracy Research Articles

The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Bureaucratic Decision-making: A Weberian Perspective

This work questions AI´s role in bureaucratic decision-making. The Weberian conception of bureaucracy, based around the concept of an ideal bureaucracy in which authority is distributed, delegated, clearly delimited and hierarchical and that enshrines the following of formal rules, task specialization through division of labor, legal certainty and a predilection for efficiency in recordable and accountable decisions can serve as a framework to orient how governments should approach the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) given the many problems associated with its careless deployment. Using theoretical analysis, this work explains Weberian ideas of bureaucracy and contrasts them with real-life cases of implementation of AI in bureaucratic decision-making, often with detrimental results for society. After identifying and framing issues related to AI, e.g., lack of transparency, attempts to shift accountability from humans to technology, the exacerbation of bias and potential for systemic discrimination, the paper proposes Weberian prescriptions that should help public administration make careful decisions about the adoption of AI and the consequences of its implementation. The article also engages with Weber critically, rejecting the notion that public administrators do not engage in politics and asserting that AI decision-making is necessarily political as well, as it entails exercising power over citizens.

E-Governance for Functional Bureaucratization in Nigeria: Benefits and Challenges

This paper examined the challenges and potential benefits in e-governance for effective bureaucratization in Nigeria. The study through review of extant works in e-governance and bureaucracy assessed the concepts of bureaucracy, bureaucratization and e-governance. An instrumental case study research design was adopted for the study. Data for the study was collected through secondary sources, personal observations and interactions during conferences. Content analysis was utilized to analyze information generated. The paper, therefore found out that application of modern information and communication technologies stand to improve on public bureaucracy by infusing accountability, accessibility, and flexibility in public administration. These could be achieved through the use of close circuit cameras, computer applications and software as well as artificial intelligence in public offices. However, the challenges in tapping into this gold mine of technology in public administration in Nigeria ranges from inadequacy of skilled ICT personnels, corruption and bureaucratic resistance, poor/inconsistent policies and regulatory frameworks, inadequate public and digital awareness, inadequate ICT infrastructure and digital divide, among others. The study consequently recommended among others that government should provide modern ICT infrastructure, promote cybersecurity and theft consciousness and develop ICT policies in Nigeria.

Unintended Consequences of the NCAA College Athletics Transfer Portal

The article examines the unintended consequences of the NCAA College Athletics Transfer Portal. For decades, college sports abided by a uniform set of NCAA rules that only changed incrementally over the years. The advent of the transfer portal dramatically changed this orthodoxy seemingly overnight. It is the revolving door caused by this platform that has had nightmarish consequences for administrators in college athletics and coaches. The universal reason that one attends college is to be a student and what is lost in the portal fanfare is the stability of the student-athlete’s experience as a student. One of the most problematic aspects of the portal is that there is no mandatory orientation session for prospective transfer portal applicants that highlight the pros and cons of their decision and there are few guard rails that protect student-athletes from making impulsive decisions. Student-athletes must be protected from themselves. Moreover, there were few rules that existed at the time this article was written that prevented coaches from exploiting this new platform in negative ways. This article examines the concept of bureaucracy and how bureaucratic principles are needed to provide guidelines and standard operating procedures with this new platform. There must be clearly defined rules and regulations even in the free market. While the portal has certainly created excitement among many, the purpose of this article is to clearly show how the costs of this platform, in its current form, outweigh the benefits.

MOVING FROM BUREAUCRACY TO ADHOCRACY: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TOWARDS TORWARDS AN IMPROVED OPERATIONS STRATEGY

This review paper seeks to analyse and elucidate on the depth and extent of public sector managers’ involvement in creating, inculcating and sustaining an innovative culture in their public spheres thus shifting from bureaucracy and adopting an adhocratic organisational culture. This process involved a systematic review, synthesis and analysis of several articles, journals and books as a n exhaustive review of literature. A selection of articles and journals articulating the concepts of bureaucracy, adhocracy and public sector innovation were analysed. This analysis revealed that there is a paradigm shift in the organisational culture, design and strategy of some public sector organisations and institutions as they seemingly incorporate bureaucracy, adhocracy and innovation as an endeavour to adapt to the dynamic nature of the public service and as a mechanism to enhance organisational functionality and capability of the state to deliver services. This paper further establishes a glaring and inherent relationship between adhocracy culture and strategy implementation as outlined and described in Quin’s theory of Competing Values Framework (CVF) supported by McKinsey 7S Framework. This paper analyses the current highly bureaucratised public sector can implement and infuse in their organisational structure, operations and culture adhocracies towards the realisation of the public sector innovation concept. The analysed articles are relevant and befitting to the topic as they link bureaucracy and adhocracy and how a possible shift can bring about an innovative and creative public service. A qualitative research approach was used where existing literature collected as research empiricism and the empirical findings of the articles were documented. This review paper is novel because it seeks to contribute to the current debate in the literature of public sector innovation through the use adhocracy and bureaucracy. This paper concludes that there is a symbiotic relationship between adhocracy, strategy implementation and innovation It recommends that the leadership and management of public sector organisations should work towards a structure of establishing a structure that accommodates adhocracy within their organisation as a recipe for effective strategy implementation and innovation. Both operational and strategic levels of leadership and management should be structured such an adhocratic culture within the organisation prevails in order to drive innovation through a paradigm shift from a bureaucratic approach to an innovative culture through adhocracy. Implications of this paper include a revision of the Department of Public Service Administration’s Operations Management Framework operations strategy to entail adhocracy as a central tenet in formulating the Service Delivery Model, Service Delivery Improvement Plan and Organisational structure design. This paper further recommends a similar survey to be undertaken in individual government departments and further pursuit of adhocracy culture in other semi government organisations to test appositeness.

The mirage of integration: Taking a street-level perspective on the nexus approach

The nexus approach for sustainable management of natural resources combines environmental management and governance across sectors and scales. This approach, along with other integrative practices, has however seen limited uptake in practice despite its great promise. Drawing on the ‘street-level bureaucracy concept’, this article examines the role of policymakers in a nexus project, using interviews with international civil servants on a natural resource use team. Barriers and opportunities for the adoption of integrative thinking are identified, and factors influencing the nexus process are found to range from individual, organizational, contextual, and political factors to external actors. The most prominent factor is found to be individual factors, mainly due to discretion during implementation and individual values and norms. Solutions to improve adoption will vary depending on the operational environment and the article highlights the importance of perspective knowledge and a sound theoretical understanding of complex systems involved.

Mismatched Reality: Russian Decision-making on the War in Ukraine

This article examines why and how Putin’s decision could have been made to go to war with Ukraine in February 2022. It starts with an analysis of whether the decision to invade Ukraine can be seen as rational, and then examines other sociological constructs for explaining the decision. These sociological constructs are based in Max Weber’s concepts of bureaucracy, Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice and Sociological Neo-Institutionalism’s theorising on the externally influenced nature of contemporary bureaucracy. Drawing on these constructs, the article argues that a better lens to understand Putin’s decision is through models that explain the effect of the Kremlin’s bureaucracy on the formation of strategic logic. These arguments and conclusions are consistent with the concerns of New Area Studies scholarship in trying to understand why a particular narrative might form and determine national security decision-making.

Russian Bureaucracy as Creation of Petrine Modernization as Viewed by Rusian Conservative Publicists of the Post-reform Epoch

Based on the analysis of the journalistic heritage of Russian conservative publicists of the post-reform era (I.S. Aksakov, F.M. Dostoevsky, V.P. Meshchersky, M.N. Katkov, V.V. Rozanov), the article examines the phenomenon of Russian bureaucracy as the result of the Petrine modernization and creation of the regular state. The study shows that the concept of bureaucracy is organically integrated into the dialogue about Peter's modernization, and for most publicists the progressive nature of bureaucracy as modernity state management system remains inconspicuous, mainly their attention is focused on the dysfunction of the administrative machine. In a number of cases, anti-bureaucratic rhetoric is used as the tool for criticizing Western-style modernization in general and its inspirer, Peter the Great. The bureaucracy is subjected to the sharpest criticism by conservative publicists for its formalism, the emphasis shift from the result of activity to its process, autonomization from real political tasks and the needs of the state.

Bureaucracy and the Government

This paper explains the concept of bureaucracy and government as well as describing the differences between bureaucracy and government in terms of definition, theory, and task. This paper also discusses the position of the bureaucracy in the trias politica system, where there is a classification of power, namely the executive, legislative and judiciary. Then, this paper will lead to the administration and implementation of public services. This paper concludes that government and bureaucracy are two different domains, where bureaucracy can become a separate part from the executive, legislative and judiciary. People charge of providing public services are referred to bureaucrats, not the government. Bureaucrats and government have different roles and responsibility in delivering public service.

Interrogating hegemonic embraces: Representative bureaucracy, methodological Whiteness, and non‐West exclusions

AbstractThe United States' racial history infrequently defines the representativeness of bureaucracies outside of the United States. This article explores how selective historical memories and insufficiently critical concept importations limit disciplinary understandings. We articulate how policy transfer assumptions, narrow administrative histories, methodological Whiteness, and incomplete considerations of non‐West administration alter our understanding of what is or is not representative bureaucracy. We encourage scholars to recall how concepts like representative bureaucracy may lack exact comparability outside the West and to be open to its potential alteration by contextual circumstances. The implications for further exploration of the representative bureaucracy concept and the challenges for pedagogy are also discussed.Evidence for Practice West‐derived hegemonic understandings of the public administration discipline limit the development of public administration practice and scholarship outside the West. Insufficient historical and comparative circumspection is a frequent output of West‐based scholars seeking to implement their concepts in non‐West administrations. The discipline and practice of public administration may increase its global dialogues by conversing with non‐West actors and recognizing the limitations of Western data and theories. Like many administrative concepts, the representative bureaucracy concept as developed in the West may not operate similarly in other contexts.

Relationship between Law Making Procedures and Bureaucracy in Modern India

Abstract : The study sheds light on bureaucracy and law-making procedure of India which is a developing country. The concept of bureaucracy refers to the administrative policy making group and non-elected government officials who contributed in creating laws and legislations in a country. Law making procedure is an important part of parliament which includes some specific steps for creating a particular law against some aspect. Several legislative proposals are brought to the parliament as bills based on which laws and legislations are created. It is important to receive approval for all the legislative proposals from the houses of parliament and the president of India for passing a law. Investigating the relationship between law making procedure and bureaucracy of India is the main focus of this following article. Secondary sources such as articles, journals, government reports and official government insights have played a crucial role in conduction of this research article. These sources help to collect more and more relevant information about the law-making process and bureaucracy in India. A few themes are created under which all the findings are evaluated with proper citation maintaining all the ethics. As a result, it is identified that bureaucrats play different crucial roles in law making procedures such as enforcing rules, implementing laws, setting disputes and others. Keyword : Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, Indian Laws, Law Making Procedure, Legislations.

Nature of post-Soviet wars: fragments of problems

The author substantiates the principle of the researcher’s distance from the political situation in Russia and the entire post-Soviet space [Makarenko V. P., 2016, pp. 53–77] given that the main characteristics of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet state mind come from lie, violence and political mediocrity [Makarenko V. P., Akopyan A. G., Khaled R. K. B., 2020]. The leaders of the Russian Empire (Nicholas II) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) engaged the country in two world wars which implies that even the Russian revolutions did not change the patterns of political thinking of the ruling minorities in Russia [Liven D., 2007]. The purpose of this article is to apply the author's concept of bureaucracy to explain the nature of post-Soviet wars. For this, the fundamental research of Hannah Arendt, the observations of writers, war journalists, and civilian analysts of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the war between Russia and Chechnya in 1994–1996 are being used. The problems of reassessing the links between war and politics, the phenomenon of unknown wars in the history of the USSR and post-Soviet Russia, the reproduction of liars and the process of formation of unrecognized states in the post-Soviet space are considered.

The Bureaucratic Ethos in Street-Level Work: Revitalizing Weber’s Ethics of Office

Abstract Despite the centrality of bureaucracy to both the theory and the realities of street-level bureaucracy, street-level scholars have rarely engaged with the concept of bureaucracy as such. We argue that Weber’s perspective on bureaucracy represents an indispensable source that may help us align the theoretical foundation of street-level scholarship with its empirical findings and bring attention to aspects of street-level work that are often overlooked. Drawing on a value-based reading of Weber, we propose an ethics of office-approach that allows us to see frontline workers’ discretionary practices as an integrated aspect of their bureaucratic ethos, which enables them to handle complex demands and multiple obligations. The ethics of office-approach further recognizes that their actual possibilities for doing so are related to their training and expertise within specific life orders characterized by different purposes and ethical codes. The approach therefore calls for contextual sensitivity. To develop our argument, and demonstrate the analytical range and usefulness of the ethics of office-approach, we present three case examples based on ethnographic studies of midwifery care, child protection, and citizen services.

BIROKRASI, GOOD GOVERNANCE SERTA ARTI MAKNA PENDIDIKAN POLITIK

Realizing good governance, the Indonesian government, both central and regional, needs to immediately carry out bureaucratic reforms that are not only at the level of commitment but also at the level of real life. It is hoped that this will reduce bureaucratic pathologies such as mal-administration that leads to corruption, collusion, and nepotism. Max Weber's legal rational bureaucracy concept is actualized in Indonesia with various advantages and disadvantages as seen from the behavior of the bureaucracy. Bureaucratic behavior arises when there is an interaction between individual characteristics and bureaucratic characteristics; especially with the various issues that are developing and current law enforcement related to bureaucratic pathology. Gradually, in Indonesia, bureaucratic reform is carried out in the dimensions of institutions, apparatus resources, management, and culture/mind set. Both the central government and local governments should carry out bureaucratic reform through consistent and sustainable learning organizations, taking into account critical success factors.

Gramsci on Bureaucracy

This essay reconstructs Antonio Gramsci’s account of bureaucracy as it unfolds in his magnum opus, the Prison Notebooks. By adopting the “philological” way of reading this work developed in recent decades by Gramsci scholars and significantly anticipated by Joseph Buttigieg’s “Gramsci’s Method” (1990), I show how the concept of bureaucracy is closely connected to some key elements in Gramsci’s political reflections, such as the categories of “hegemony” and “organic crisis.” While drawing out the “constellation” of Gramsci’s references to bureaucratic apparatuses throughout his carceral writings, I stress in particular their relationship with his investigation of the nature and the role of political parties, as well as with his overall assessment of parliamentarism (and of its degeneration). In this framework, a further pivotal element is represented by Gramsci’s conception of “modernity,” that is, of the features that characterize the contemporary political panorama and to which the issue of bureaucracy is closely related. To conclude, I compare Gramsci’s and Max Weber’s theories of bureaucracy, showing both similarities and differences.

WEBER'İN BAKIŞ AÇISINDAN OTORİTE VE BÜROKRASİ

The first name that the bureaucracy concept evokes today is undoubtedly Max Weber. In Weber's management theory; there are three types of authority, which Weber tries to question why people obey orders. Weber; states that these authorities, which he describes as traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational models, can all provide obedience, but each will suit a different stage in the development of organizations. This study aims to reveal the meaning that Weber attributes to the concept of authority trilogy and bureaucracy. As a method, a literature review has been made. The findings obtained have been analyzed with a critical point of view and in detail and content analysis and interpretation techniques have been used to examine the findings. Also including the ideas of the leading thinkers of the Islamic world on the issues of authority and legitimacy has enriched the article.

Evolution of Ray's Theory of Bureaucratic Caring

An overview and evolution of caring and the theory of bureaucratic caring and interpretations of its central categories are described. Data and models representing its theoretical development, the concept of bureaucracy, and emergence of the theory as a holographic theory are included. Central tenets in the new sciences are explored along with Bohm's corresponding ideas of explicate and implicate orders (holistic science) and spiritual-ethical caring. The theory has broad implications for increasing the knowledge of caring inter-professionally, improving the health and well-being of people, and transforming healthcare bureaucratic organizations nationally and globally, with application in the military healthcare system.

Bureaucracy and Leadership Must Align with Circumstances

Abstract The concepts of bureaucracy and leadership must align with the circumstances in the public or private sectors to be optimal in any given situation. This paper will grant readers with a deep dive into this concept. More specifically, this paper will compare bureaucracy, leadership, and groupthink by using author’s experiences in two private banking organizations and one public bureau. The purpose of this paper is to persuade readers that these frameworks can be auspicious, but only under the appropriate conditions.

Constraining Bureaucracy Beyond Judicial Review

Abstract The modern regulatory state–and the field of administrative law that studies it–is in need of “deconstruction.” That does not mean that it should be dismantled entirely. This essay does not embrace the reformers' fixation on courts as the bulwark against agency overreach. Rather, this essay develops the concept of bureaucracy beyond judicial review: not only agency actions that statute or judicial doctrine precludes from judicial review, but also agency actions that are technically subject to judicial review yet effectively insulated from it. Appreciating the phenomenon of bureaucracy beyond judicial review should encourage us to rethink theories and doctrines in administrative law. If judicial review provides no safeguard against potential abuses of power in most regulatory activities, we must turn to other mechanisms. All three branches of the federal government must play their roles, as should civil society and the agencies themselves.

Правовая помощь в мечетях Центральной России: между гражданским активизмом и бюрократией

This article examines the phenomenon of legal aid provided by mosques for Muslims in the regions of Central Russia. The case study is based on examples of mosques in Yaroslavl and Kostroma. This article investigates whether such practices are symptoms of the bureaucratization of mosques and Islam, or manifestations of civic activism in the Muslim community in modern Russia? Based on empirical data collected during observations and interviews in Yaroslavl and Kostroma in 2018–2019, it concludes that cases of legal consultations in mosques illustrate the intersection of two logics at the same time, namely, bureaucratization and the expression of civic identity for Muslims. Moreover, the author argues that there is no insoluble contradiction between these logics, despite the use of the concepts of bureaucracy and activism in everyday language.

A Vez em que a Burocracia Estava Escondida no Banheiro

RESUMO: Elaborado com base em uma situação real o presente caso de ensino busca relacionar teoria com prática por meio da confrontação de situações que envolvem nossa vida diária nas mais variadas formas organizacionais às quais fazemos parte. Propondo um método de ensino-aprendizagem participativo, visa aproximar os(as) alunos(as) da realidade da área de estudos em Administração a partir de uma percepção crítica e reflexiva da/sobre a realidade. Para tanto, toma-se como mote o conceito de burocracia que, a partir de uma perspectiva weberiana, pode ser interpretado enquanto forma de controle e dominação. Tomando isso como norte, nossa sugestão é “atuar” sobre a burocracia, justamente, por meio de seu oposto. Isso significa ponderar que, diante da normatividade, do formalismo e da fixidez da burocracia a criatividade, surge aqui como um possível caminho de desvio em direção a construções coletivas e organizacionais mais voltadas a uma perspectiva de autonomia e emancipação dos sujeitos.