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Lecture Notes on the Behaviour of Rational Institutions

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Summarised, yet Detailed Lectures Notes about the behaviour of public bureaucracies who adopt the Rational Model/Weberian Framework. These notes include these characteristics of a Rational Bureaucracy, as well as some of the shortcomings of the model identified by Michael Lipsky,

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  • December 30, 2021
  • 3
  • 2021/2022
  • Class notes
  • Vinothan naidoo, phd
  • All classes

Subjects

  • bureaucratic models
  • bureaucracies
  • public administration
  • bureaucrats
  • rational model
  • weberian framework

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  • University of Cape Town (UCT)
  • Comparative Public Institutions [POL2042S] (POL2042S)
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The Behavior of Rational Bureaucracies
The practical application of Weberian rational principals produces problematic outcomes

Documentation:

• Supposed to ensure that bureaucracies make consistent and fair decisions

• However, it can lead to delays which cause frustration

• There is too much paperwork



Division of labor:

• Hierarchal relations between officials in order to establish a line of accountability

• However, hierarchal layers can be used to excess

• Unnecessary positions actually delay the process of bureaucracies

• The fixation on hierarchal division of labor adds no value and is redundant

• Only the officials benefits, not citizens

• Rule governed conduct can actually induce conformity (which stifles creativity)



Conduct:

• The tendency to look to rules and proceeds to guide their conduct

• However, without these rules, bureaucrats are unable to engage with citizens on a “human” level

• This means that bureaucrats may not be able to engage compassionately with citizens

• Building a career in the bureaucracy can be problematic over time (over-reliance on seniority)



Robert Merton’s View on the Weberian Rational Principal

• The Weberian Rational Principals do not consider the dysfunctional effects of their

criteria/principals

• The technical-instrumental value of rational criteria belied its tendency to socially condition

officials to function in problematics ways

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