Bureaucracy in Bangladesh is transactional, not rational, in nature

Alam, Khurshed (2022) Bureaucracy in Bangladesh is transactional, not rational, in nature [['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined]]

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Max Weber postulated that a rational bureaucracy was a fundamental prerequisite for a modern state. Khurshed Alam argues that the bureaucracy in a modernised Bangladesh has instead become transactional, working through relations of mutual influence and exchange rather than impersonal rules and rational calculations, to the detriment of the polity.