Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that bureaucracy was the most efficient model for private businesses and public offices. His theories influenced generations of business leaders and politicians ...

Political scientists are not generally accustomed to treating Max Weber's unusual account of democracy–plebiscitary leader democracy–as a genuine democratic theory. The typical objection is that Weber ...

Max Weber, the north German economist, proud reserve officer in the Kaiser's army, literal dueler with academic opponents, and co-founder of modern sociology, sits on every college reading list for ...

Political Theory (PT), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, serves as the leading forum for the development and exchange of political ideas. Broad in scope and international in coverage, PT ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, sociologist Max Weber theorized that industrialization and capitalism were changing how our social institutions, including workplaces, form and function.

IN JANUARY 1919 Munich was in turmoil. Revolution in November of the previous year had swept away the King of Bavaria, installing a ramshackle regime headed by a messianic journalist of the radical ...