In today’s modern America, bureaucracy has become quite a negative word in people’s mind. Mainly, due to unsatisfactory experiences related to the term ‘bureaucracy’, most people look down upon it without ever wondering about the positive impacts of bureaucracy in the American democracy. Also, with the policy of the Republicans to bash bureaucracy on every chance they get, bureaucracy has garnered more hatred towards it than applause. People often ignore the fact that American democracy is helped by bureaucracy with effects such as operation without profit as top priority, and treatment of every American citizen as equal. Bureaucracy does not provide services with profit on their top priority, unlike privately owned businesses. It is concerned
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Detractors of bureaucracy often disparage this quality of bureaucracy, instead urging it to consider the situation of an individual and provide service to him or her instead of people who arrived ahead of them. A typical example of this is an individual speeding due to his or her delay in picking up his or her child from school, who additionally expects the police officer to forgive him or her after understanding his or her circumstance, but what if the same individual is forced upon to watch another individual way back of his or her line at Department of Motor Vehicles, who gets to complete his work ahead of him or her just because that individual is a friend of the clerk. Often, in most other countries the problem bureaucracies is that they are not bureaucratic enough and provide services to the customers depending on their friendship or the amount of bribe they receive. Bureaucracy is a great way for government to ensure every citizen is treated equally while seeking any form of government services. American democracy would certainly benefit from that. So, instead of focusing our will on pointing out the negativity bureaucracy carries with it, we should all appreciate its contribution in American democracy. Every policy ever created has its own positive and negative effects, but with bureaucracy I feel like its benefits heavily shadow its drawbacks in accommodating the American
Detractors of bureaucracy often disparage this quality of bureaucracy, instead urging it to consider the situation of an individual and provide service to him or her instead of people who arrived ahead of them. A typical example of this is an individual speeding due to his or her delay in picking up his or her child from school, who additionally expects the police officer to forgive him or her after understanding his or her circumstance, but what if the same individual is forced upon to watch another individual way back of his or her line at Department of Motor Vehicles, who gets to complete his work ahead of him or her just because that individual is a friend of the clerk. Often, in most other countries the problem bureaucracies is that they are not bureaucratic enough and provide services to the customers depending on their friendship or the amount of bribe they receive. Bureaucracy is a great way for government to ensure every citizen is treated equally while seeking any form of government services. American democracy would certainly benefit from that. So, instead of focusing our will on pointing out the negativity bureaucracy carries with it, we should all appreciate its contribution in American democracy. Every policy ever created has its own positive and negative effects, but with bureaucracy I feel like its benefits heavily shadow its drawbacks in accommodating the American