Abstract:Part One of the article re-examines Weber’s famous chapter (as presented in the Gerth and Mills anthology) on bureaucracy in the light of the historical-critical edition of the text in the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe. A contrast emerges between the ideal type treatment of bureaucracy and actual, country specific, cases of bureaucracy where the determinants of state, economy and culture impact the bureaucracy. Weber insisted on the legitimacy of modern bureaucracy, which he analysed through his theory of social action. He offered broad legal grounds for its validity. This becomes the subject of detailed and critical examination in relation to neoliberalism, New Public Management and Neo-Weberian state theory.
{"title":"Legitimizing Bureaucracy and the Challenge of Caesarism","authors":"S. Whimster","doi":"10.1353/max.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Part One of the article re-examines Weber’s famous chapter (as presented in the Gerth and Mills anthology) on bureaucracy in the light of the historical-critical edition of the text in the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe. A contrast emerges between the ideal type treatment of bureaucracy and actual, country specific, cases of bureaucracy where the determinants of state, economy and culture impact the bureaucracy. Weber insisted on the legitimacy of modern bureaucracy, which he analysed through his theory of social action. He offered broad legal grounds for its validity. This becomes the subject of detailed and critical examination in relation to neoliberalism, New Public Management and Neo-Weberian state theory.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130468914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The Neo-Weberian State, Professor dr. Bouckaert observes, includes a ‘logic of appropriateness’ in its whole-of-government approach. This re-thinking points toward enriching state bureaucracy to include democratic practices not only surrounding, but within the bureaucracy. An illustration is the Community Health Center program in the United States. Additional food for thought comes from the recent symposium, ‘Reappraising Bureaucracy in the 21st Century,’ sponsored by Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG).
{"title":"Rejoinder to Geert Bouckaert","authors":"C. Stivers","doi":"10.1353/max.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Neo-Weberian State, Professor dr. Bouckaert observes, includes a ‘logic of appropriateness’ in its whole-of-government approach. This re-thinking points toward enriching state bureaucracy to include democratic practices not only surrounding, but within the bureaucracy. An illustration is the Community Health Center program in the United States. Additional food for thought comes from the recent symposium, ‘Reappraising Bureaucracy in the 21st Century,’ sponsored by Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG).","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127279171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Experience tends universally to show that the purely bureaucratic type of administrative organization in its precision, stability, stringency of discipline and reliability ... is, from a purely technical point of view, capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational known means of exercising authority over human beings. ( Economy and Society ) 1 This passion for bureaucratization, such as we have heard expressed here, is enough to drive one to despair. … the central question is not how we further and accelerate it but what we have to set against this machinery, in order to preserve a remnant of humanity from this parcelling-out of the soul, from this exclusive rule of bureaucracy over the ideals of life.
{"title":"Special edition on the Neo-Weberian State","authors":"S. Whimster","doi":"10.1353/max.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Experience tends universally to show that the purely bureaucratic type of administrative organization in its precision, stability, stringency of discipline and reliability ... is, from a purely technical point of view, capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational known means of exercising authority over human beings. ( Economy and Society ) 1 This passion for bureaucratization, such as we have heard expressed here, is enough to drive one to despair. … the central question is not how we further and accelerate it but what we have to set against this machinery, in order to preserve a remnant of humanity from this parcelling-out of the soul, from this exclusive rule of bureaucracy over the ideals of life.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130619963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Malaysia has undergone a series of civil service reforms, and the article considers one of the approaches to be in line with Bouckaert’s Neo-Weberian State thesis. A Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) under the Prime Minister’s Department works to three core principles; collaborative governance, citizen delivery mindset and commitment from the highest hierarchy level. Collaborative governance is increasingly experimented with but still considered a black box in a non-Western context. The process of innovation is described.
{"title":"Neo-Weberian State in a Different Context: The Malaysian Experience","authors":"Nadia Monira Mohamed Taib","doi":"10.1353/max.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Malaysia has undergone a series of civil service reforms, and the article considers one of the approaches to be in line with Bouckaert’s Neo-Weberian State thesis. A Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) under the Prime Minister’s Department works to three core principles; collaborative governance, citizen delivery mindset and commitment from the highest hierarchy level. Collaborative governance is increasingly experimented with but still considered a black box in a non-Western context. The process of innovation is described.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"22 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131923892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In The Protestant Ethic the three cultures intersect, whose process of differentiation onwards from the 18th century has been studied by Wolfgang Lepenies: the scientific, the literary and the humanistic-philosophical. The first is the main corpus of the text; the second appears in his references to Goethe and Franklin, and the third is constituted by his allusions to Nietzsche. The reference to the last launches an anti-hedonistic message that drives intramundane asceticism which, as is well known, culminates in the idea that the last men, the men of utilitarianism, are imprisoned in the professional ethic as a stahlhartes Gehäuse. The article shows that Weber's message was informed by Friedrich Kapp's gift to the young Weber of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels, as interpreted by Albert Bielschowsky.
{"title":"The political-pedagogical role of Franklin and Goethe in the work of Max Weber","authors":"J. Martínez","doi":"10.1353/max.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In The Protestant Ethic the three cultures intersect, whose process of differentiation onwards from the 18th century has been studied by Wolfgang Lepenies: the scientific, the literary and the humanistic-philosophical. The first is the main corpus of the text; the second appears in his references to Goethe and Franklin, and the third is constituted by his allusions to Nietzsche. The reference to the last launches an anti-hedonistic message that drives intramundane asceticism which, as is well known, culminates in the idea that the last men, the men of utilitarianism, are imprisoned in the professional ethic as a stahlhartes Gehäuse. The article shows that Weber's message was informed by Friedrich Kapp's gift to the young Weber of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels, as interpreted by Albert Bielschowsky.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124581593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In 1960, Bendix claimed that the studies of the Economic Ethics of the World Religions (EEWR) serve as verification of the central thesis of The Protestant Ethic (PE). In 1975, Tenbruck argued that the PE and the EEWR 'do not belong together as hypothesis and control evidence' (: 328). In the present paper I will analyse the relationship between the PE and the EEWR in the context of Weber's methodological writings on history, particularly of his Critical Studies, using an argument of Schluchter (2014), and certain elements of the Protestant ethic debate. I will argue that the EEWR can be regarded as a 'test' of the Protestant ethic thesis in the sense that it can be read as Weber's monumental (positively) last 'anti-critique' responding to the criticism of the PE, and that this does not weaken but adds to its significance.
{"title":"The Economic Ethics of the World Religions as Weber's (positively) last anti-critique","authors":"Ferenc Takó","doi":"10.1353/max.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1960, Bendix claimed that the studies of the Economic Ethics of the World Religions (EEWR) serve as verification of the central thesis of The Protestant Ethic (PE). In 1975, Tenbruck argued that the PE and the EEWR 'do not belong together as hypothesis and control evidence' (: 328). In the present paper I will analyse the relationship between the PE and the EEWR in the context of Weber's methodological writings on history, particularly of his Critical Studies, using an argument of Schluchter (2014), and certain elements of the Protestant ethic debate. I will argue that the EEWR can be regarded as a 'test' of the Protestant ethic thesis in the sense that it can be read as Weber's monumental (positively) last 'anti-critique' responding to the criticism of the PE, and that this does not weaken but adds to its significance.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134352264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article aims to expand upon our understanding of the historical dynamics of Weber's central but relatively underexplored category of Caesarism by showcasing its operation within contemporary Turkish politics. We illustrate how the shift from a parliamentarian to a presidential system, bestowing Turkish premier Erdoğan with unrestrained executive powers, has manifested a type of 'pure', unrestrained Caesarism that Weber associated with and criticized in Otto von Bismarck. Yet, reflecting Weber's optimism that strong parliamentarism could remedy the threats of authoritarianism, we also argue that it is possible to reverse today's negative politics in Turkey towards re-democratization. Deploying the Weberian concept of Caesarism and other related notions drawn from Weber's thought, such as parliamentarism, charisma, and plebiscitary democracy and politics, demonstrates the relevance of this category today, helps us better understand the contemporary Turkish climate, and offers pathways for its future political revitalization.
摘要:本文旨在通过展示凯撒主义在当代土耳其政治中的运作，扩大我们对韦伯的核心但相对未被充分探索的凯撒主义类别的历史动态的理解。我们说明了从议会制度到总统制的转变，赋予土耳其总理Erdoğan不受约束的行政权力，如何体现了一种“纯粹的”、不受约束的凯撒主义，韦伯与奥托·冯·俾斯麦(Otto von Bismarck)联系在一起并对其进行了批评。然而，韦伯乐观地认为，强大的议会制可以补救威权主义的威胁，我们也认为，有可能扭转土耳其今天的消极政治走向重新民主化。运用韦伯的凯撒主义概念以及从韦伯思想中提取的其他相关概念，如议会制、魅力、公民投票民主和政治，展示了这一类别在今天的相关性，有助于我们更好地理解当代土耳其的气候，并为其未来的政治复兴提供了途径。
{"title":"Understanding the 'New Turkey' through Max Weber's category of Caesarism","authors":"Banu Turnaoğlu, E. Keyman","doi":"10.1353/max.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article aims to expand upon our understanding of the historical dynamics of Weber's central but relatively underexplored category of Caesarism by showcasing its operation within contemporary Turkish politics. We illustrate how the shift from a parliamentarian to a presidential system, bestowing Turkish premier Erdoğan with unrestrained executive powers, has manifested a type of 'pure', unrestrained Caesarism that Weber associated with and criticized in Otto von Bismarck. Yet, reflecting Weber's optimism that strong parliamentarism could remedy the threats of authoritarianism, we also argue that it is possible to reverse today's negative politics in Turkey towards re-democratization. Deploying the Weberian concept of Caesarism and other related notions drawn from Weber's thought, such as parliamentarism, charisma, and plebiscitary democracy and politics, demonstrates the relevance of this category today, helps us better understand the contemporary Turkish climate, and offers pathways for its future political revitalization.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133156115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Four aspects of Max Weber's complex relation to Anarchism are discussed. (1) a deep interest for some anarchist people and ideas, (2) his attitude of moral respect, but political rejection, of the anarchist Gesinnungsethik, (3) an anti-authoritarian attitude which is related to his personal conflict with patriarchy, (4) his critique of the modern powers of bureaucracy and capitalism which has elective affinities with the anarchist critique.
{"title":"Max Weber and Anarchism","authors":"Michael Löwy, Eleni Varikas","doi":"10.1353/max.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Four aspects of Max Weber's complex relation to Anarchism are discussed. (1) a deep interest for some anarchist people and ideas, (2) his attitude of moral respect, but political rejection, of the anarchist Gesinnungsethik, (3) an anti-authoritarian attitude which is related to his personal conflict with patriarchy, (4) his critique of the modern powers of bureaucracy and capitalism which has elective affinities with the anarchist critique.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125930296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay is an examination of Weber's extensive comments on Knapp's statist theory of money. These comments are found in an appendix to the second chapter in the first part of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Because Weber's reflections were heavily influenced by two of the founding members of the Austrian School of economics, Menger's notion of money and von Wieser's conception of value are explored. Whereas many scholars criticized Knapp's chartist theory, Weber did not. But he did contend that Knapp's almost exclusive focus on the formal aspects of money made his theory incomplete. By examining Weber's comments on Knapp's theory, we not only learn what Weber approved of and disapproved of regarding Knapp's theory, but gain a clearer view of Weber's conception of money.
{"title":"Weber and Knapp on Money","authors":"C. Adair‐Toteff","doi":"10.1353/max.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/max.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay is an examination of Weber's extensive comments on Knapp's statist theory of money. These comments are found in an appendix to the second chapter in the first part of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Because Weber's reflections were heavily influenced by two of the founding members of the Austrian School of economics, Menger's notion of money and von Wieser's conception of value are explored. Whereas many scholars criticized Knapp's chartist theory, Weber did not. But he did contend that Knapp's almost exclusive focus on the formal aspects of money made his theory incomplete. By examining Weber's comments on Knapp's theory, we not only learn what Weber approved of and disapproved of regarding Knapp's theory, but gain a clearer view of Weber's conception of money.","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121251117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Max Weber's 'Sociology of the State' and the Science of Politics in Germany","authors":"Gangolf Hübinger","doi":"10.15543/MWS/2009/1-2/3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15543/MWS/2009/1-2/3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103306,"journal":{"name":"Max Weber Studies","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116144517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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