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Bureaucracy
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Bureaucracy, as Weber described it, is organization by hierarchy, written rules, specialized division of labor, impersonality, and appointment on qualification.
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A licensing office treats every applicant by the same published criteria, whoever they are.
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Impersonality is the design goal, and it is what makes bureaucracies fair and frustrating at once.