Bureaucracy, the Bureaucratic Auditor, and the Ombudsman: An Ideal-Type Analysis

Larry B. Hill

Chapter 5 in State Audit, 1981, pp 83-121 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Max Weber used a method he called “ideal-type analysis” to describe an emerging phenomenon, bureaucracy, that allegedly was destined to displace traditional forms of public and private administration. In the century’s final quarter, it is manifest that Weber’s prophecy has been fulfilled: bureaucracy is everywhere triumphant. That this is so is a frequent cause of lament, because as bureaucracy has become ubiquitous, some serious problems have arisen, particularly problems concerning the impact of public bureaucracy on citizens. This chapter’s purposes are to identify the main problems with bureaucracy; to develop an ideal type of the bureaucratic auditor, an institution designed to deal with the problems; and to analyze an increasingly popular office—the Ombudsman, as it exists in several countries and particularly in Israel—against the ideal type.

Keywords: Ideal Type; State Comptroller; State Audit; Pure Type; Administrative Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04666-9_5

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