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Compare and contrast the role of the Federal Bureaucracy in the United States with that of the Civil Service in Britain
Title: Compare and contrast the role of the Federal Bureaucracy in the United States with that of the Civil Service in Britain
Category: Law & Government / International
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Compare and contrast the role of the Federal Bureaucracy in the United States with that of the Civil Service in Britain
Max Weber, (often) credited with the birth of sociology, the science of social studies, said that the 'ideal bureaucracy' consisted of a system that was efficient, worked fast but yet remained precise, wasn't ambiguous, had knowledge of the files it held, continually discreet, has strict subordination, reduction of friction whilst maintaining the lowest possible material and production costs. While Weber's statement is itself ambitious (and highly unlikely that a bureaucracy containing all those characteristics could exist in either the US or UK political systems) if …showed first 85 words of 1306 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1306 total…that no reform has been possible. In the UK the current government have leant, very well, how to manipulate and manage the media to their own advantage. Very little is heard of the civil service in the daily papers, and therefore it doesn't come in for too much criticism. Hopefully over the next 8-10 years some serious reform of the civil service may take place, even if it simply works to incorporate the rash of special advisors that are cropping up in modern day British politics.
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