POLITICS AND THE STATE. WEBERIAN CONSIDERATIONS ON THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE IDEAL TYPE.

Abstract

Max Weber's interest in analyzing the nature of power and authority, as well as his constant preoccupation with modern trends of rationalization, led him to concern himself with the operations of modern corporations in the political, administrative, and economic fields.  Bureaucracy is a form of structuring the administrative-political activity based on a clearly delimited administrative hierarchy, on the development of high professional competencies and on a set of objectively delimited execution tasks. This presupposes the training of civil servants in such a way as to meet a series of qualities indispensable for the fulfillment of their tasks.