The case for defunding universities has always been strong. Markets work, and universities thrived for centuries without ...

In Steven Gaines’s racy, now out-of-print Beach Boys biography Heroes and Villains, he recounts that Gary Usher – who wrote ...

Regulating Human Research: IRBs from Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy by Sarah Babb. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.

19th-century German sociologist Max Weber was one of the first scholars to study its influence. He described the concept of bureaucracy in a positive sense and considered the ideal bureaucracy to ...

While bureaucracy as an institution has a deep and larger history, in the modern context, it was the writings of G W F Hegel and Max Weber who brought to the fore, in different ways, the criticality ...

Max Weber is considered a pioneer of the rationalist trend in ... which have become the most common form of organization in this society. Weber considered bureaucracy to be the essence of his theory ...

Max Weber, a German sociologist whose ideas flourished ... Amy, a professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, argues that bureaucracy is government, further arguing that bureaucracy is good ...

"It's an old word, going back to the German sociologist Max Weber 100 years ago," he explained ... That's how it was until bureaucratic proceduralism came along, otherwise known as the ...

Orwell understood the bureaucratic aspect of classic authoritarianism ... his job would be nearly impossible for the next four years. Yet when Max Weber saw patrimonialism as obsolete in the ...

After World War II, in 1947, the Allied Powers officially declared the state of Prussia extinct. Max Weber's ideas about modern bureaucracy came from Prussia's successful and effective bureaucracy.