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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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194 ◾  Logics of Legitimacy
collaborators 1998). Citizens commonly believe government is using its power
against them, or at least not for them (Berman 1997). ese fears are supported by
scholarly studies across a century of bureaucratic organization.
For example, through his ideal- type model of authority and sociological study of
numerous military and European state organizations, Weber (1968) oers a strong
critique of bureaucracy’s potentially negative implications for society. He notes that
in bureaucratic systems, government is more realistically in the hands of career
bureaucrats (Blau and Meyer 1999). Bureaucracies tend to monopolize information
and power and resist change, moving toward autocracy and totalitarianism. A more ...
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