Photograph: Weber, Max
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Max Weber, 1918

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bureaucracy : Characteristics and paradoxes of bureaucracy (Encyclopædia Britannica)
The foremost theorist of bureaucracy is the German sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920), who described the ideal characteristics of bureaucracies and offered an explanation for the historical emergence of bureaucratic institutions. According to Weber, the defining features of bureaucracy sharply ...

Germany : Foreign policy, 1890–1914 (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Bismarck's successors rapidly abandoned his foreign policy. The Reinsurance Treaty of 1887 with Russia was dropped, leaving Germany more firmly tied to the Dual Monarchy and Russia free to conclude an alliance with France in 1894. Within four years Friedrich von Holstein, a councillor in the ...

Weber, Max (Encyclopædia Britannica)
German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy. Weber's profound influence on sociological theory stems from his demand for objectivity in scholarship and from his analysis of the ...