Essays about: "Rational Bureaucracy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Rational Bureaucracy.

1. 1. Facing Anthropocene Threats : Rational Bureaucracy vs. Anthropocene Climate Change in The Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Lora Ivanoska; [2023]
   Keywords : Anthropocene; Climate Change; Bureaucracy; Rational Bureaucracy; Climate Change Bureaucracy; Jeff Vandermeer; Southern Reach; Annihilation; Authority;

   Abstract : Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach series has been a talking point for many ecocritical papers exploring themes of Anthropocene, uncanny, and hyperobjects. Despite the plethora of themes being investigated concerning climate change in Southern Reach, an important aspect, the climate change bureaucracy of the Southern Reach agency, is glossed over. READ MORE

3. 2. Assessment of Decline of Tehran’s Old Neighborhoods

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Ali Refahi; [2017]
   Keywords : Old Neighborhoods; Rational Actorhood; Modernization; Decoupling; Iranian Urban System; Science General;

   Abstract : By the beginning the second decade of twentieth century, a new regime came to power in Iran. While considering the Iranian society, her institutions, mechanisms and structures as a backward and dysfunctional one, the new regime started to set up a new order, based on modern values. READ MORE

4. 3. Cultural Professionalism : Links of implementation and information between public administration and minority groups. A description and an evaluation of its trade-offs

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ellen Lundkvist; [2016]
   Keywords : representative bureaucracy; social capital; trust; linkworkers; multicultural society; public administration;

   Abstract : With increased immigration into western democracies, how to establish generalised trust in society has received new attention. Are minorities and immigrants low trust levels best remediated through Putnam’s theory of civil organisation engagement or Rothstein’s theory of impartial institutions? Simultaneously, people are hired based on their cultural identity to work with minorities and immigrants in Swedish public administration, which is thought to increase the target group’s trust. READ MORE

5. 4. A New World Order: Towards the Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy 2.0

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Jonas Bååth; [2011]
   Keywords : Ideal-type; Governmentality; Network society; Weber; Foucault; Castells; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the ideal-type of bureaucracy, Max Weber outlined the creation of the modern state as an iron-cage of disenchantment and quantification. This thesis updates Weber’s ideal-type on the notion that the modern nation state is declining, and the large institutions with it. READ MORE

6. 5. Islands of Merit- Explaining Partial “Meritocratization” in the Egyptian Bureaucracy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Stefan Söderberg; [2010]
   Keywords : Patronage; Egyptian bureaucracy; Technical Office; Meritocratization; Privatization; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Distinctive new features of the Egyptian bureaucracy have followed the process of economic liberalization and privatization that began in 1991. The Egyptian bureaucracy is excessively large and suffers from inefficiencies and low capacity, but dealing with prioritized policy areas, such as privatization, experts have been recruited to so called “Technical Offices” that are closely tied to the cabinet ministers. READ MORE