Bureaucracy and Public Communication

Abstract

Bureaucracy is one of the most striking characteristics of contemporary society. In the course of a single century bureaucracy has developed from hierarchically organized administrative government into one of the most outstanding traits of almost all organizations of society. It is to be found not only in state administration but also in all centralized economic, political, and scientific institutions, in all sorts of social and political organizations, labor unions, and even in mass entertainment and sports organizations. In short, almost no form of the mass organization of society has been able to withstand a bureaucratic trend.