Summary Of Democracy: The Case For More Bureaucracy And Less Democracy

Introduction

In the article, Bureaucracy and Democracy: The Case for More Bureaucracy and Less Democracy, the author claims that problems in American government in 1990s were not problems of bureaucracy but problems of governance. To illustrate this, he provides some evidences from the US policy, and explains the reason why more bureaucracy is better than more democracy. In the end he suggests several optional solutions to increase effectiveness of governance through shaping the political design where less democracy and more bureaucracy is better option. After reading the article I found some suggestions very useful and with most of them fully agree. The reason of this is explained in the later chapter.

Summary

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In this case he suggests bureaucracy is not just being responsive to electoral institutions, but also responds to political demands. In other words, bureaucracies are being asked to resolve political conflicts by empowering their capacity. It might be possible to obtain “the solution to the governance problem is to have less democracy and more bureaucracy” (as cited in the article). As seen in the article, for this statement the author proposes the fundamental political change, and suggests eight solutions. Among those potential solutions some of them have attracted my attention as real hints to solve problems while the another one is found as an unreasonable. For instance, there is no need to consider longer terms for elected officials in order to better implement policy making process while the author claims a short-term focus is ineffective, and not conductive to a good policy process. In my view, six years are an optimal term, neither long nor short piece of time to test how elected officials cope with their responsibilities. In addition, being reelected can motivate them to work