Confucius and the moral basis of bureaucracy
By: Frederickson, H. George
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2002Administration & Society 33, 6, p. 610-628Abstract: The moral justification for bureaucracy in systemns of democractic self-government is stronger in Eastern thjought than in Western philosophy and practice. In East Asia, moral justification for bureaucracy is broadly understood to be based on the work on Confucius and his followers. Modern scholars confirm that the primary countries of East Asia have distinctive bureaucratic cultures tracing to Confucian ideology. distinctive elements of Confucion ideology includes rule of man versus rule of law, distinctive characteristics of good public officials, the nature of moral conventions and practices in governing, the importance of education and merit for public officials, how good officials should deal with those in political power, the logic of civil recipricity, and the nature of order in society. Following descriptions of each of these elements of Confucian moral justification for bureaucracy, the article closes with a comparison of Western and East approaches to the moral justification for bureaucracy
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The moral justification for bureaucracy in systemns of democractic self-government is stronger in Eastern thjought than in Western philosophy and practice. In East Asia, moral justification for bureaucracy is broadly understood to be based on the work on Confucius and his followers. Modern scholars confirm that the primary countries of East Asia have distinctive bureaucratic cultures tracing to Confucian ideology. distinctive elements of Confucion ideology includes rule of man versus rule of law, distinctive characteristics of good public officials, the nature of moral conventions and practices in governing, the importance of education and merit for public officials, how good officials should deal with those in political power, the logic of civil recipricity, and the nature of order in society. Following descriptions of each of these elements of Confucian moral justification for bureaucracy, the article closes with a comparison of Western and East approaches to the moral justification for bureaucracy
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