Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Learning Outcomes: at the end of this presentation students will get concept
of the following:
Administration Dichotomy
Professionalized Public Bureaucrats
Bureaucracy as Power Elite
Competition Among Elites
The Inner Check
Frederick Mosher thinks it was more then three times then private sector
Representative Professionalised
Democracy Bureaucracy
Ignored
Politicians Experts
•Political agenda •Policy area
•Insufficient resources •Social needs
bureaucracy that follows recruitment practices which ensure that its personnel will have
the same characters as demographic character of the community it serves.
Bureaucratic employment as a means of promoting equal economic opportunity that
mirrors a society in its social, economic, and cultural composition that will be much
more sensitive to the needs of citizens of that society.
Much less likely to be arbitrary or abusive when it is exercising power over “its own
kind” of people.
Criticism
conflict with the modern attachment to the standard of merit in the recruiting public
servants.