Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET July 2018 Political Science
Who among the following described bureaucracy as 'The continental nuisance'?
AMax Weber
BThomas Carlyle ✓ Correct
CM. Crozier
DKarl Marx
Correct answer: (B) Thomas Carlyle — Thomas Carlyle described bureaucracy as 'the continental nuisance', so the answer is Thomas Carlyle.
Explanation
★Thomas Carlyle described bureaucracy as 'the continental nuisance', so the answer is Thomas Carlyle.
★Carlyle was a 19th-century British historian and writer who scorned the spread of the term and the system.
★He distrusted parliamentary government and laissez-faire economics, favouring strong, paternalistic leadership instead.
★His outlook, visible in works like 'Sartor Resartus' (1833) and 'On Heroes and Hero Worship' (1841), prized heroic authority over routine officialdom.
★Max Weber is wrong; he analysed bureaucracy neutrally as the most efficient rational-legal form, not as a nuisance.
★Michel Crozier is wrong, though he did critique 'The Bureaucratic Phenomenon' (1964) in modern sociological terms.
★Karl Marx is wrong; he saw bureaucracy as an instrument of class domination serving the state and capital.
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