EIRP Proceedings, Vol 4 (2009)

Abstract

In the European states, a responsible administration, from a political point of view, coordinated by law, competent and professional and neutral from a public point of view, has been the basis for the European state for a long time and a dominant model of this type of administration is represented by the Weberian bureaucratic model, which emphasized the value of efficiency, consistency, continuity and predictability. Bureaucracy is indispensable in any state and very important in the democratic regimes. Weber asserted that the bureaucratic organisation obtained power in virtue of the decrease of the economical and social differences. The modern state depends on a bureaucratic basis, but once established, bureaucracy is among the social structures that are most difficult to eliminate. The emergence and development of the bureaucratic mechanisms has become a monster of the modern society, because the bureaucracy works in the opposite direction from democracy.