Browsing by Subject "Bureaucracy"

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    Contingent authority and youth influence: When youth councils can wield influence in public institutions
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2017) Booker, Angela
    Studies of youth public participation have dealt with varied conceptions of citizenship that emerge from literatures on human rights, civic engagement, youth development, and youth organizing and activism. Where those conceptions rely on developmental logics that limit or exclude youth participation, young people’s attempts to gain authority reveal concurrent ways they navigate these multiple conceptions of participation. Drawing on an 18-month ethnographic study, the analysis presented here focuses on a specific venue for youth participation: a student advisory board. Data includes participant observation, interviews, and artifacts including reso- lutions and emails. Twenty-one of 27 students, representing roughly 15 high schools in their school district, participated in the study. When students attended to paperwork like bylaws and the state education code, they gained access to contingent authority, a limited but influential form of Weberian authority. Key implications of the study indicate that while youth advisory councils can reliably produce exclusion on developmental grounds, they can also provide the parameters for establishing contingent authority. Paperwork is a key to accessing this form of bureaucratic authority, but exercising it requires sustained, public practice. This article contributes to literatures on youth studies, public participation and more broadly to sociology of education.
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    Malestar burocrático, violencia y adaptación en la universidad neoliberal
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2026) López Alós, Javier; Sin departamento asociado
    This article aims to highlight some of the effects of bureaucratic transfor-mations within academia, particularly on academic subjectivity. To this end, it analyses the ways in which administrative innovations have not only al-tered academic institutions butalso the behaviours, attitudes, expectations, and self-perception of individuals connected to academic life in one way or another. Bureaucratic malaise is described as one of these effects, and the ar-ticle examines how these changes respond to a logic of exploitation of bodies, disciplined through a repertoire of practices that, like software applications, require active participation. Rather than providing a description of the cur-rent state of university bureaucracy, this work offers a reflection on the bu-reaucratic nature of universities today –its significance for the definition of the academic profession, its modes of productivity and violence, its multiple ambivalences, and the forms of adaptation it generates. Among these, bu-reaucratism deserves special attention.
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    The Presence of Bureaucracy in the Balanced Scorecard
    (2019) Costa Oliveira, Helena; Lima-Rodrigues, Lúcia; Craig, Russell
    Despite being widely pilloried, bureaucratic processes are present in many organizations as a form of neobureaucracy. In this paper, we analyse whether a technique used in Management Accounting Systems (MAS), known as the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), represents a bureaucratic order. We propose the following set of concepts to identify a bureaucratic order: authority, jurisdiction, professional qualications, knowledge, rationality, discipline, accountability, systematization and transparency. We discuss the presence of such a set of concepts in the design and implementation of the BSC and conclude that the BSC is an example of a neo-bureaucratic order. This paper also underlines another important finding, the value of bureaucracy in attaining good MAS. The theme we explore is overlooked in the accounting literature. This paper can be a starting point for further research.