Politicization of Bureaucracy

Daniel Appiah; Abdul Gafaru Abdulai

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_682

Politicization of Bureaucracy

Daniel Appiah, Abdul Gafaru Abdulai

University of Ghana Business School

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Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy refers to a formal-legal organization with a hierarchical structure of authority whereby merit-based criteria are used to appoint, retain, promote, and reward or sanction officials who perform functionally specialized duties in an impersonal manner. Politicization: Politicization of bureaucracy is broadly defined as the substitution of impersonality for personal criteria in the functioning of the bureaucracy. Democracy: Democracy is the institutional arrangement whereby individuals or groups of individuals in a society participate in regular free elections for the people’s vote to acquire the power to decide on constitutional opportunities on the strength of their advocated policies and/or their projected images. Public bureaucracies are institutions of administration that privilege some values, actions, interests, and actors in the distribution of resources to….

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Go.
Subtitle of host publication	With 294 Figures and 229 Tables
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	4712-4719
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319209289
ISBN (Print)	9783319209272
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_682
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bureaucracy
Democracy
Politicization
Public administration

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