Ideological and Theoretical Discussions Surrounding the Problem of Bureaucracy

Abstract

In the present-day world, acute ideological discussions are developing around the problem of bureaucracy. Participants in these discussions, which are growing in number, often demonstrate a fundamentally divergent understanding of the given problem. This is a manifestation of the differences in the objective historical situations and ideological-theoretical traditions within whose framework these discussions occur; of the differences in the class and social status of their participants; and, finally, of the differences in the specific varieties and consequences of bureaucracy that people encounter firsthand in different countries.