ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Avocation, Rationality, Deductive Reasoning
2 Sep 2020
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Free and subject to authority only with respect to official obligations. A clearly defined sphere of competence in the legal sense. The office is filled by a free contractual relationship (free selection) Candidate selection on the basis of technical qualifications. The office is treated as the sole or primary occupation of the incumbent. A system of promotion according to seniority or achievement. Strict and systematic discipline and control in the conduct of the office. The development of modern forms of organization in all fields is nothing less than identical with the development and continual spread of bureaucratic administration. This is true of church and state, of armies, political parties, economic enterprises, interest groups, endowments, clubs, and many others. Its development is, to take the most striking case, at the root of the modern western state. (p. 223) The development of bureaucracy greatly favors the levelling of status, and this can be shown historically to be the normal tendency.
