Bureaucracy Course

The Bureaucracy course, in general, helps students understand bureaucracy with a variety of learning strategies, both through lectures and case discussions. In this course, students will receive lecture material that includes: conceptualization of bureaucracy, theoretical perspectives that develop in the study of bureaucracy. In particular, students are invited to understand one of the schools of bureaucracy that is most widely adhered to, namely Weber‘s ideal principles of bureaucracy. Furthermore, students are facilitated to understand the history, development and dichotomous debate between politics and bureaucracy in Indonesia and its implications for the practice of bureaucratic pathology in Indonesia by discussing several cases. In the final part, students learn to understand and discuss the concept of a bureaucratic environment which includes the reciprocity between the development of bureaucracy and politics, bureaucracy and democracy, bureaucracy and the development of the market economy and globalization, bureaucracy and regional autonomy, bureaucratic reform, the development of new paradigms (new governance and new public management).