Mind Maps for UPSC Public Administration (Bureaucracy and Development)

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Mind Map Important Topics:

Bureaucracy and Development:

1.1. Weber on Bureaucracy vis-a-vis Democracy

• 1.1.1. democratic movements demanded recruitment to public services based on merit, rather than personal or political considerations
• 1.1.2. bureaucratization which he regarded as unavoidable consequence of democratic growth
• 1.1.3. democracy has to promote what reason demands and democratic sentiments hate.

1.2. Concept

• 1.2.1. antithetical approaches to providing governance for a society
• 1.2.2. both paradoxical and complementary
• 1.2.3. The bureaucracy has become an important locus for public involvement and for democracy.

1.3. Marxists

• 1.3.1. transfer of administrative power to a special stratum of experts, are a definite challenge to democratic principles
• 1.3.2. final goal is the elimination of bureaucracy

1.4. Palombara

• 1.4.1. extent of bureaucracy’s power may be checked by such factors as increased literacy, strong traditional institutions, and strong social elites

1.5. Riggs

• 1.5.1. development of a middle class as a vital means of limiting bureaucratic power in favour of democratic development

1.6. Eva Etzioni-Halevy’s Thesis
 

• 1.6.1. an intrinsic connection between bureaucracy and democracy, although it is of paradoxical or self- contradictory nature
• 1.6.2. democracy poses a dilemma for bureaucracy
• 1.6.3. ambiguity of the role definition of bureaucracy is the source of considerable strain, friction and even conflict 
• 1.6.4. Safeguards against Bureaucratic Threat to Democracy
• 1.6.4.1. Representative Bureaucracy
• 1.6.4.2. Balanced Bureaucracy
• 1.6.4.3. Participatory Bureaucracy

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