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Max Weber's ideal-type bureaucracy is characterized by:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Max Weber's ideal-type bureaucracy is characterized by:

  1. group decision-making only
  2. patronage, charisma, tradition
  3. random selection, no hierarchy
  4. hierarchy, rules, impersonality, merit
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Correct answer: D. hierarchy, rules, impersonality, merit

1. Weber's 1922 typology of rational-legal authority. 2. Bureaucracy is the most efficient form of organization. 3. Features: division of labor, hierarchy, written rules. __Source: syllabus Political Theory — administrative theory__

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