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Logics of Legitimacy
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Logics of Legitimacy

by Margaret Stout
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
325 pages
11h 32m
English
Routledge
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The Constitutional Tradition—Bureaucratic Accountability ◾  99
5. e oce itself demands full- time commitment of the manager, regardless of
time obligations in the workplace.
6. e oce dictates stable, exhaustive rules that can be learned, including tech-
nical knowledge, jurisprudence, and administrative management.
Following from this, the principles of administration believed to be necessary
for ecient production in large scale, highly technical activities are specialization
or division of labor; hierarchy of authority and systems of control; rules and pro-
cedures to ensure uniformity; neutrality or disinterestedness; and placement based
on merit or skill (Blau and Meyer 1999). e classic explication of bureaucratic
organization i
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ISBN: 9781466511613