Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET July 2016 Political Science
Max Weber and Fred W. Riggs have a commonality between them in the context that:
AThey constructed ideal type models
BThey studied administrative systems in their environmental settings ✓ Correct
CThey concentrated on the problems of change
DThey used deductive approach
Correct answer: (B) They studied administrative systems in their environmental settings — Weber and Riggs both studied administrative systems within their environmental settings, so that is the commonality.
Explanation
★Weber and Riggs both studied administrative systems within their environmental settings, so that is the commonality.
★Max Weber linked bureaucracy to the rise of rational capitalism, analysing administration within its socio-economic context in 'Economy and Society'.
★Fred Riggs compared administrative systems across countries and stressed that each is shaped by local culture, law and custom.
★Both therefore treat administration as embedded in its surrounding environment rather than as a self-contained machine.
★Riggs's ecological approach makes this environmental focus explicit through models like the prismatic society.
★Constructing ideal-type models is mainly Weber's method and the option about the problems of change describes neither precisely.
★Both worked inductively from comparative and historical material, so the deductive-approach option does not capture their shared method.
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