Convergence between Woodrow Wilson's and Max Weber's thought, as well as their
differences with regard to the politics–administration dichotomy, can be ascribed to the …

The politics-administration dichotomy is much mentioned and often criticized in the Public
Administration literature. The Politics-Administration Dichotomy: Toward a Constitutional …

The term Weberian bureaucracy refers to Max Weber's (1864–1920) ideal type (or model) of
rational bureaucracy, published in Economy and Society posthumously in 1921/22 by his …

I make three contentions. First, Hegel's theory of bureaucracy is as comprehensive as
Weber's ideal type of bureaucratic organization. I argue this by making a sociological …

The social infrastructures that constitute both public and private administration are
increasingly entangled with digital code, big data, and algorithms. While some argue these …

It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become
citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 …

Intellectual traditions are commonly regarded as cultural variations, historical legacies, or
path dependencies. By analyzing road junctions between different traditions of Public …

In common parlance as well as in academic debates, state and police are terms that are
usually seen in a close relationship with each other. They even seem to determine each …

How can we understand and analytically grasp the practices that “run the state”? Departing
from a contemporary focus on co-production in governance regimes, such as New Public …

This chapter examines the nature of the contemporary challenges to bureaucratic
accountability from the perspective of social power structure. The hallmark of public …