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22
Dec
Dictators at work
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Compliments of mb7art

Our starting point is the realization that any leader worth her salt wants as much power as she can get, and to keep it for as long as possible (Bueno de Mesquita & Smith, 2011, p. 11).

In The Dictator’s Handbook, Bueno de Mesquita and Smith (2011) explain that leaders’ actions (both good and bad) can be understood as efforts to save their own skin. Turn the page…

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06
Aug
Characteristics of the career bureaucrat
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Compliments of Harald Groven via Flickr

In the 1930s Weber defined bureaucracy as a controlled, neatly sorted environment that flowed from the chain of command. He specified that:

  • there be a hierarchy of offices;
  • the hierarchy entail a systematic division of labor based on specialized training and expertise; and
  • the performance of duties be governed by written rules.  Turn the page…
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