DICTATORS AND BUREAUCRACY
|N THE course of his address to the Psychology Section of the
Anthropological Congress, Professor M. Ginsberg dealt with the causes which led to the uprising of dictators. “The extension of Governmental activity has resulted in the creation of a vast body of officials to whom inevitably a great deal of administrative discretion has to be entrusted. Much of the work of the growing body of bureaucrats is highly specialised, and therefore insusceptible of effective popular control. Bureaucracy is denounced, but it grows.” It is the growth of bureaucratic institutions which leads to Government falling into disfavour, and a desire on the part of people to get things done leads them to favour the dictator. The solution of such a development appears to be along the lines of limiting the functions of Government, so to curtail the employment of a bureaucracy, and for Parliaments to become more efficient. Unless Parliaments speed up their pace and increase their efficiency they will assuredly pass to the limbo of lost things.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 256, 29 October 1934, Page 6
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