Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET December 2018 Political Science
Who among the following said, 'Bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy'?
ARamsay Muir
BH. J. Laski
CHerbert Morrison ✓ Correct
DF. M. Marx
Correct answer: (C) Herbert Morrison — Herbert Morrison said that bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy, so the answer is Herbert Morrison.
Explanation
★Herbert Morrison said that bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy, so the answer is Herbert Morrison.
★Morrison was a leading British Labour politician who held senior cabinet posts.
★His point was that an elaborate administrative machine is the unavoidable cost of running a modern democracy.
★A structured bureaucracy is what actually implements the laws and policies that parliament approves.
★Ramsay Muir is wrong; he was a Liberal thinker known for critiques of cabinet 'dictatorship', not this saying.
★Harold Laski is wrong, though a major Labour theorist, this specific epigram is not his.
★F. M. Marx is wrong; he is associated with the typology of bureaucracies and the volume 'Elements of Public Administration'.
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