Question

Importance of bureaucracy in modern democratic society

Answer 1

In the European states, a responsible administration, from a political poin t of view, coordinated by law, competent and professional and neutral from a public point of view, has been the basis for the European state for a long time and a dominant model of this type of administration is represented by the Weberian bureaucratic model, whi ch emphasized the value of efficiency, consistency, continuity and predictability. Bureaucracy is indispensable in any state and very important in the democratic regimes. Weber asserted that the bureauc ratic organisation obtained power in virtue of the decrease of the economical and social differences. The modern state depends on a bureaucratic basis , but once established, bureaucracy is among the social s tructures that are most difficult to eliminate. The emergence and development of the bureaucratic mechanisms has become a monster of the modern society, because the bureaucracy works in the opposite direction from democracy.
(PDF) Bureaucratic Administration in Modern Society. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254704076_Bureaucratic_Administration_in_Modern_Society [accessed Jun 29 2018].