In Defence of Bureaucracy: Governance and Public Values in a Digital Age

Frank Bannister ()
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Frank Bannister: Trinity College

A chapter in Beyond Bureaucracy, 2017, pp 27-47 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Almost from the moment the term was first coined, bureaucracy has been the subject of strong criticism and, if anything, such criticism has become more trenchant in recent decades. Numerous scholars, practitioners and politicians have talked about or envisaged systems of government/public administration which move beyond bureaucracy. These range from the tried to the theoretical. Others have forecast the end of bureaucracy—increasingly invoking information technology as a tool which can be used to achieve this end. In this chapter, a counter argument will be presented, i.e. that when it comes to protecting and vindicating public values in a complex modern state, bureaucracy can play a vital, and hard to displace, role.

Keywords: Public Administration; Direct Democracy; Deliberative Democracy; Network Governance; Public Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54142-6_3

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