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Bureaucracy in a Democracy - Bureaucracy in a Democracy. By Charles S. Hyneman. (New York: Harper and Brothers. 1950. Pp. xv, 586. $4.50.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Chester I. Barnard
Chester I. Barnard
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The Rockefeller Foundation
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American Political Science Review , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , December 1950 , pp. 990 - 1004
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1950

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1 “Red Tape,” Law Quarterly Review, Vol. 65, pp. 172–187 (April, 1949)Google Scholar.

2 Considering the common use of “responsibility” and “responsible” in connection with politics, government, and organization this is a matter of astonishment. The subject is not listed in the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, although “Organization” and “Authority” are topics presented. The words apparently have no status in legal literature, being not listed in the Corpus Juris or in the index of the Harvard Law Review. It is a subject not listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The only sustained discussion of the subject I have found is Fauconnet, Paul, La Responsabilité, Étude de Sociologie (2d ed., Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1928)Google Scholar. This book is of value as respects the ethnic history of the concept, and as respects liability to criminal sanctions, but not for problems of responsibility in modern formal organizations.

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