Reputation‐Sourced Authority and the Prospect of Unchecked Bureaucratic Power

This study examines factors influencing public service career choice in developing countries through case studies and a survey. Based on the results of these case studies and survey, I conclude that job security, public service motivation, social recognition and status, and the opportunity for career development are important determinants in why individuals in developing countries choose a public service career. Bureaucratic power and family-related factors also play a role and reflect the high power distance and collectivist culture of developing countries.

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Congress and the Bureaucracy: Who Makes the Law?

Congress ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300220537.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 239-260

Author(s):

Benjamin Ginsberg ◽

Kathryn Wagner Hill

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Environmental Impact ◽

Federal Government ◽

Social Services ◽

Food Supply ◽

Executive Branch ◽

Employment Opportunities ◽

Health Maintenance ◽

Bureaucratic Power ◽

Executive Agencies

This chapter concerns how Congress deals with bureaucratic power. Much of today's federal bureaucracy can trace its origins to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Under FDR's leadership, the federal government began to take responsibility for management of the economy, provision of social services, protection of the public's health, maintenance of employment opportunities, promotion of social equality, protection of the environment, and a host of other tasks. As the government's responsibilities and ambitions grew, Congress assigned more and more complex tasks to the agencies of the executive branch, which sometimes were only too happy to expand their own power and autonomy. Executive agencies came to be tasked with the responsibility for analyzing and acting upon economic data; assessing the environmental impact of programs and projects; responding to fluctuations in the labor market; safeguarding the food supply; regulating the stock market; supervising telecommunications and air, sea, and land transport; and, in recent years, protecting the nation from terrorist plots.

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(The Other) Yoshida Shigeru and the Expansion of Bureaucratic Power in Prewar Japan

Monumenta Nipponica ◽

10.1353/mni.2012.0036 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 283-327

Author(s):

Roger H. Brown

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Bureaucratic Power

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O Papa Francisco e a Cúria Romana. Contradições entre os poderes e impactos carismáticos sobre uma burocracia tradicional

Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira ◽

10.29386/reb.v75i300.275 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 75 (300) ◽

pp. 958

Author(s):

João Décio Passos

Keyword(s):

Catholic Church ◽

Central Government ◽

Pope Francis ◽

Bureaucratic Power ◽

Historical Moment ◽

The Church ◽

The Catholic Church

Síntese: As análises desenvolvidas nesse artigo têm como objeto as relações entre o Papa Francisco e a Cúria romana. A distância crítica visível do atual Pontífice em relação à dinâmica curial levanta a problemática do exercício de poder no governo central da Igreja católica. Assumindo como principal referência teórica as tipologias de poder weberianas, distingue o poder carismático, exercido por Francisco, e o poder burocrático, exercido pela Cúria. A reflexão indica que se trata de uma duplicidade de autoridade inerente ao poder central da Igreja que se torna, no momento histórico, explícita nas posturas e discursos do Papa. Afirma também que a Cúria, com suas doenças expostas por Francisco, constitui uma burocracia com características próprias e que as reformas prometidas deverão colocá-la na posição de autêntica burocracia, cuja função é estar a serviço de um governo colegiado exercido pelo Pontífice, conforme indicou o Concílio Vaticano II.Palavras-chave: Autoridade. Cúria romana. Igreja. Papado. Reforma.Abstract: The analyses developed in this article have as object the relations between Pope Francis and the Roman Curia. The critically visible distance between the current Pontiff and the curial dynamic raises the issue of the exercise of power in the central government of the Catholic Church. Taking as main theoretical reference the Weberian power typologies the article distinguishes the charismatic power exercised by Francis, and the bureaucratic power, exercised by the Curia. The reflection suggests that we are dealing with a duplicity of authority that is inherent to the central power of the Church and that, in this historical moment, becomes explicit in the Pope’s postures and speeches. It also states that the Curia, with its diseases exposed by Francis, is a bureaucracy with its own characteristics; and that the promised reforms should put it in a position of an authentic bureaucracy whose function is to be of service to a collegiate government exercised by the Pontiff, as indicated by the Second Vatican Council.Keywords: Authority. Roman curia. Church. Papacy. Roform.

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