The Role of Bureaucracy and Administration in a Democratic Political System

The Role of Bureaucracy and Administration in a Democratic Political System

Introduction

Bureaucracy refers to as a grouping of government officials or officials within any other institutions that are basically non-elected and implements the laws, rules, functions, and ideas of their institutions. The terminology of 'bureaucracy' was originated from a French word 'bureau' that means the political authority or ruling. The tension between bureaucracy and democracy has confounded the concept of public administration. Thus, democracy is regarded as a system that demands for responsiveness to the public, higher authorities of politics, client groups, or whatsoever who has been assumed as a democratic rule agent. That responsiveness does not always need guaranteed efficiency, but the efficiency and effectiveness of bureaucracy mostly contradicts the control and authority of democracy (Phillip, 1996).

In this paper, there will be a discussion about the role of bureaucracy and administration in a political system of democracy. Secondly, it will be examine that how the democratic governance limits or contributes towards the bureaucracy and administration. Thirdly, its relationship to the conventional presidency institutions will be discussed. Then, lastly, it will be elaborated that either an individual bureaucrat or administrator have a democratic obligation or not and the conclusive lessons will be highlighted that could be helpful for entering into a public or not for profit administration.

Discussion

This anxiety between bureaucracy and democracy perseveres, but that tension is directly experienced by individual administrators, as it is highly vital for guiding the public in the path of a resolution. As, divergence is fundamental to the anxiety between bureaucracy and democracy, speculation regarding the duties of the officials of democracy along with their personal places within the thoughts, actions, and choices of administrator and bureaucracy that offers some beneficial territory to resolve the questions of the place of bureaucracy within a regulatory democratic system.

Role of Bureaucracy and Administration in a Democratic Political System

The main role of bureaucracy and administration for democracy in current systems of politics emerges from the weaknesses of more traditional democratic institutions. For instance, in most of the democratic political systems, participation in voting has been declining swiftly in most of the systems of democracy, and also the number of members in various political parties is reducing. For some time, parliaments have been disputed to be losing authority to the officials, and within the officials, the cabinet collegiality is corroding in errand of superior authorities for the prime minister. However, the customary instrumentalities of democratic political system are definitely weekend if not declining. Even though, the role of bureaucracy and administration in democracy is so extensive, as it does not just make implementations of the governmental policies but also assists in shaping those policies. The major foundation of authority is the bureaucracy and that is really intricate to properly control. As per Max Weber, bureaucracy is a rational way that assists in organizing the society itself and that rationality is found throughout the society not just in government ...