Public Bureaucracy

Abstract

Weberian bureaucracies have been found to be essential in the fight against corruption and for achieving impartiality and "quality of government". Yet, despite an increasing comparative literature, there is little consensus on which particular features of a Weberian bureaucracy really matter and under what conditions Weberian bureaucracies were developed. One of the main reasons for this lack of consensus is that bureaucracies are studied from very different methodological approaches - including formal and non-formal theories as well as quantitative and qualitative empirical analyses - with little cross-disciplinary dialogue among the economists, sociologists, political scientists, administrative scholars and other social scientists studying them. The goal of this panel is to bring together scholars who have been working on the incentives and behavior of Weberian bureaucrats in different polities (including also different historical periods), from different perspectives and using different methods in order to foster a much needed cross-disciplinary and inter-methodological dialogue.

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