Weber's Scorecard: State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne

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Edward C. Page (Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science)

Weber's Scorecard

State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne

Edward C. Page (Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science)

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English

Oxford University Press
23 December 2024

European history; Comparative politics; Political structure & processes; Public administration

This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.

By: Edward C. Page (Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy London School of Economics and Political Science)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 642g
ISBN: 9780198904274
ISBN 10: 0198904274
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Introduction 2: Patrimonialism and ninth-century government 3: Twelfth-century feudal officialdom 4: Growing intensity in the fifteenth century 5: Absolutism, bureaucracy, and eighteenth-century fiscal-military states 6: Constitutional officialdom: The 1950s and after 7: Weber's scorecard 8: If not Weber, then what?

Edward C. Page is Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, having previously held positions at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Hull. He is the co-editor, with Steven J. Balla and Martin Lodge, of The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration (OUP 2015) and author of Policy Without Politicians: Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective (OUP 2012).