Weber's Scorecard
State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 September 2024
- ISBN 9780198904274
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 240x160x23 mm
- Weight 642 g
- Language English 550
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Short description:
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 European countries. It shows that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Patrimonialism and ninth-century government
Twelfth-century feudal officialdom
Growing intensity in the fifteenth century
Absolutism, bureaucracy, and eighteenth-century fiscal-military states
Constitutional officialdom: The 1950s and after
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