Modern Understanding of bureaucratic drift and current

methods to prevent its spread By Kandia Jackson

Core thinker: Max Weber • Using Weber’s bureaucratic model to

explain the imbalances of power factor when bureaucratic drift occurs.

Focuses mostly on these

Johnathan Macey • Considered most recent leading authority on

bureaucratic drift .

• Wrote article responding to the flaws by earlier leading political scientists addressing all concerns when it came to the issues surrounding bureaucratic drift

• Macey explores the loopholes in each theory

• Including that the agents themselves are considered victims of the system and not contributors to it.

• Macey, Jonathan R.. 1992. “Organizational Design and Political Control of Administrative Agencies”. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 8 (1). Oxford University Press: 93–110. http://www.jstor.org.proxy.kennesaw.edu/stable/764891.

Core article : by Johnathan Macey• Entitled : “ Organizational Design and Political Control of Administrative Agencies,”. - Structural argument:

1) Regulatory agencies that have too much control will not relinquish it.

2) Agencies openly compete with one another for resources especially financial and job security.

Lobbying

3) Sudden interest as well as uncontrollable events make it possible an agency may receive more public funding and support. But it can also lose funding and support once the task is done

Presidential Appointments

1) Some agencies called “ Independent agencies” possess their own bureaucratic system that is accepted by Congress and the public. Here provides an unfair advantage for the president to push his agenda.

George Ritzer• Draws on Max Weber’s bureaucratic

model.

• “The Mc Donaldization of Society”.

• Boiling things down into an easy process that makes it more appealing because of its predictability but in the long term harming those who participate within it.