The military industrial complex has become our national albatross. The Soviet Union went bankrupt in part due to out of control defense spending and the United States is now headed that way too. The United States now accounts for over...
Max Weber is believed to be one of the biggest influences in political science, philosophy and sociology. His biggest contribution was probably in the field of bureaucracy and how he tried to make the system more efficient and effective.
Unlike...
The political science term “Iron Triangle” was coined to define a special understanding between a government, bureaucratic government agencies and special interest groups or organizations. This mutually supportive relationship is also known as a “Subgovernment” or "power elite." Such...
For those of you not familiar with Inverted Totalitarianism, it is a term that was first introduced by Sheldon Wolin (a political philosopher so to speak). It is derived from the power elite theory of C. Wright Mills.
This...
Top 5 Problems in Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy usually refers to a system in which selected officials take the decisions instead of the elected professionals and representatives. We find divided opinions on the advantages and disadvantage of the bureaucratic system. But most...
What is a bureaucracy?
The sociologist Max Weber wrote about it a hundred years ago.
To put simply, a bureaucracy is an organized administration (i.e. the Government) or group of individuals who are characterized by a hierarchy of rules, duties, or...
