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Comment: Representative bureaucracies.

  • UPSC 1995
  • 20 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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A representative bureaucracy is one whose personnel reflect the social composition of the society it administers. J. Donald Kingsley coined the term in Representative Bureaucracy: An Interpretation of the British Civil Service (1944), showing that a service drawn from the English middle class carried that class's outlook into policy while claiming neutrality. The concept questions…

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