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Rethinking Weberian Bureaucracy A Case Study of the Decentralization and Deconcentration Reform in Cambodia

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Kaiwen Shen1, *
1Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
*Corresponding author. Email: kevinshen@bfsu.edu.cn
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Kaiwen Shen
Available Online 29 December 2022.
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10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_316How to use a DOI?
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Weberian Bureaucracy; Decentralization; Deconcentration; Cambodia
Abstract

The petrification of bureaucracy, according to Max Weber, is a gradual realization of rationalization through which people become capable of mastering all kinds of information through more precise and effective computation. Though Weberian bureaucracy is an ideal type, it is undeniable that it can never be ideal in practice. In fact, bureaucracy is not always equivalent to efficiency. Despite the fact that many previous scholars have acknowledged in full accord that Weberian bureaucracy is not a exhaustive depiction of real bureaucratic dynamics, they scarcely examine it in practical contexts. As a country that has undergone wars, post-conflict societal ecology, and authoritarian administration, Cambodia launched the decentralization and deconcentration reform in 2002, exhibiting fast-changing and diverse bureaucratic characteristics. Hence, this paper centers on the dimension of local governments and central-local relationships within the D&D reform, attempting to reflect on the Weberian hypothesis that bureaucracy is the pinnacle of efficiency in terms of actuality.

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Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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29 December 2022
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10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_316
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2352-5398
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