POLS

304

Bureaucracy and  Development

(

3

cr)

Same as SOC 304. Prerequisite: 6 hours of social sciences or consent of instructor. Offered in alternate years.

Relationship between the character of formal organizations and the unfolding of socio-political processes. Importance of bureaucratic forms of organization, advantages and problems of bureaucracy, pathologies of bureaucracy, bureaucratic behavior and corruption, alternatives to bureaucratic organization.
 

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