The Bureaucracy Woll Readings

The Bureaucracy – Woll Readings

AP US Government – Mr. Meizys

James Q. Wilson, The Rise of the Bureaucratic State:

1. What were Max Weber’s warnings about the “bureaucracy problem?” Why did he argue that bureaucracy was an “inevitable consequence and perhaps a necessary commitment to modernity?”

2. What are the ways in which political power “may be gathered undesirably into bureaucratic hands?”

3. Define military-industrial complex.

4. One of the most frequently mentioned attributes of bureaucracy is size. A large and unwieldy administrative branch makes problems of democratic responsiveness and efficient government operation more difficult to solve. Is large bureaucracy, per se, a threat to the constitutional foundations (the Madisonian Model) of our government? Why or why not?