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Bureaucracy and de-bureaucratization
Burocracia (s) y la (des) burocratización;
Burocracia(s) e (des)burocratização
Autor
Pizza Junior, Wilson
Institución
Resumen
The author intendes to question the conceptual appropriateness of a debureaucratization policy, as it is presented in the Programa Nacional de Desburocratização (De-bureaucratization National Program), and tries to demonstrate that the theme is neither simple nor pacific, in terms of its understanding, as official procedures seem to consider. Following some general commentaries on the subject in which is emphasized the Weberian model, he presents a comprehensive view of bureaucracy, not only from the positive point of view, but also from the nega tive si de as well. Both topics of Functional Reason and Substantive Reason are focused, bureaucracy being observed in the light of concepts proposed by a dichotomic view of knowledge, which we are now attempting to re-evaluate. The author analyzes also some of the effects brought about by the bureaucratic phenomena, as a manifestation of its agents and, finally, tries to evaluate the adequate terminological utilization of bureaucratization and of de-bureaucratization, presenting the two existing trends. O Programa Nacional de Desburocratização vem popularizando, contra a burocracia, uma atitude que se caracteriza por revesti-la sistematicamente de aspectos negativos. Hoje em dia, tratar do tema significa, a priori, identificá-lo como sinônimo de ineficiência, e esse entendimento se estende, inclusive, aos meios acadêmicos. Tentaremos demonstrar, ao longo deste artigo, que "desburocratização" é um equívoco conceitual.