Introspecting The Critiques Given To Rational Bureaucracy

Globalization and revolution of information technology have not only changed the environment of the economy but also brought a profound innovation in the field of culture and politics. New requirements have been rendered for the abilities of management, decision-making and service of the governments around the world. In order to meet with these new requirements many western countries initiated a series of government innovations while the new public management movement is typically on behalf of these innovations. Weber's bureaucracy theory is fiercely criticized as low efficient and antidemocratic in the era of post-industrialization. The critiques focus on: bureaucracy hampers democracy, efficiency, etc. How treat rational bureaucracy system, respond western countries to the New Public Management, make and surmount the substitutability to the rational bureaucracy, or make and transplant briefly the rational bureaucracy, or base on Chinese actual conditions, reasonably analyze rational bureaucracy system, transfer getting right perfection to go on to make to rational bureaucracy in China? Which is the important subject that the theory circle and practice circle pay close attention to together in the Chinese administrative reform.On the basis of analyzing the rational bureaucracy system and the critiques given to the rational bureaucracy system, this article reviews the relation between them. According to the discussion, this article draws a conclusion that the advice given by NPM seems little different from bureaucracy, but in fact it improves the rational bureaucracy system and returns to it. So the rational bureaucracy system still will live, especially in China where public administration has the different circumstance from developed countries. The article attempts to use the Ecology of Administration to explain the west make essence that substitutability surmount to rational bureaucracy, China adjusts to rational bureaucracy getting right perfect reason choose to make. Public administration in China should adopt Weber's bureaucracy theory.Therefore draw the conclusion: No matter politics, economy, culture, law respect, in China do not reach to have surmount rational bureaucracy, to criticism the rational bureaucracy, and deny the rational bureaucracy's system briefly; Moreover, the western countries propose the New Public Management, really realize that surmount to substitutability of the rational bureaucracy, a query China is going through the industrialized process, should make and adjust rightly and perfectly the rational bureaucracy,on one hand China should make great efforts to create the administrative ecological environment of making the rational bureaucracy and is suitable for; Develop logic according to the administration on the other hand, should follow the Chinese bureaucracy insufficient current situation,perfect the rational bureaucracy's system. Does not certainly transplant and introduce briefly, but according to the social development and Chinese objective reality, make and adjust rightly and perfectly the rational bureaucracy.