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- Title
Weberian Bureaucracy And the Military Model.
- Authors
Miewald, Robert D.
- Abstract
This article discusses Max Weber's treatment of the modern military organization in the U.S. Throughout Weber's writings, there are only scattered references to the internal organization of the distinctively modern army. When pieced together, these references form a concept of military administration which is wholly incompatible with the doctrine articulated by German officers of the time. At several times and in several places, Weber argued that the army was a fully developed bureaucracy, that even warfare had been caught up in the irresistible advance of rationalization. Weber stressed that organizational discipline found its earliest and most thorough development in the military unit. In fact, in many ways, he anticipated some of the more manipulative managerial devices which have played such a controversial role in recent industrial psychology. As one example of the coldly designed manipulation of the soldier, Weber mentions the use of religion within an army. A bureaucracy such as an army must naturally mistrust the irrational tendencies of religious sentiment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MILITARY administration; WEBER, Max, 1864-1920; WEBER, Mex; MILITARY discipline; PUBLIC administration; MILITARY personnel; RELIGION
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1970, Vol 30, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/973227