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„BUREAUCRAZY”, CZYLI UCHODŹCY W NIEWOLI PROCEDUR. O BIUROKRACJI W GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN (2015) JENNY ERPENBECK

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Jurzysta A.

Conversatoria Litteraria

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2019

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vol. 13

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issue XIII

203-215

PL

The paper deals with the portrayal of bureaucracy in Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015) by Jenny Erpenbeck, a novel that explores the European migrant cri-sis through the eyes of Richard, a recently retired professor of classics, who begins to interview refugees in Berlin. Erpenbeck’s work is a compendium of refugees’ stories, a novel about displaced persons in kafkaesque bureaucratic situations. The author describes two worlds, which ostensibly have nothing to do with each other : that of the widowed classical philologist and the young men from Guinea, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mali. Their lives and mindscapes are fundamentally different from one anothers. While Richard occupies himself more and more intensely with the refugees by giving help and German les-sons, the reader becomes increasingly familiar with a much bigger problem relating to the fact that these young men are not allowed to work or travel: the German bureaucracy and the legislation of the European Union have damned them to idleness. Without any real prospects, they simply hang around together, sometimes with more and sometimes with less patience.

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ОБРАЗ ЧИНОВНИКА-БЮРОКРАТА В РАННЕМ ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ М. ГОРЬКОГО

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Егорова Ю.

Conversatoria Litteraria

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2019

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vol. 13

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issue XIII

135-141

PL

The image of the bureaucrat appeared in early works of M. Gorky when he col-laborated with newspapers, such as «Nizhegorodsky Listok» and «Samarskaya newspaper» (1894-1896). As a citizen and as a writer he, undoubtedly, was concerned with the phenomenon of bureaucracy, bureaucratic indifference and arbitrariness. However, being a beginner in the field he did not yet develop a large-scale fight against it in the form of exposing article, pamphlets, and program works. In a number of his early sketches and stories there are images of bureaucrats but not heroes capable to denounce and to fight against bureaucracy as the phenomenon effectively. Only later when Gorky gets inte-rested in the ideas of Marxism and gets carried away by the revolutionary romanticism, a new hero appears in his works, i.e. the Person capable to elimi-nate bureaucratic indifference as a remnant of the past. This is how Gorky defined this phenomenon for himself.

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BIUROKRACJA I BIUROKRACI W RADZIECKIEJ KOMEDII FILMOWEJ

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Cybulski M.

Conversatoria Litteraria

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2019

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vol. 13

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issue XIII

161-176

PL

The given article is devoted to the issue of bureaucratic distortions in film comedies, which were created in the Soviet Union during 1927-1988, and thus almost throughout the entire functioning of the historical empire. Starting from the silent movie Don Diego and Pelagia by Yakov Protazanov, through the early sound films of the Stalin era (Volga-Volga by Grigori Aleksandrov), followed by Khrushchev Thaw films (including Eldar Ryazanov’s The Carnival Night, A Groom from the other world by Leonid Gaidai) and comedies created in the 1960s and 1980s, the author tries to indicate the mechanisms of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, its influence on the functioning of the state and citizen, and also presents methods of stigmatizing bureaucratism by Soviet filmmakers.

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Koncepcja bezinteresowności ekonomicznej Talcotta Parsonsa

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Wechta P.

Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym

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2019

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vol. 22

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issue 2

7-24

EN

The task of the paper is to analyze Talcott Parsons’ concept of economic disinterestedness, which the classical American sociologist introduced at an early stage of his work. It is aimed at economic orthodoxy, whose permanent foundation is the still vital figure of homo oeconomicus. The concept of disinterestedness is about crossing the limits of one’s own advantage in economic activities. When justifying the concept, Parsons refers to Alfred Marshall and his concept of a “gentleman of the world of free industry and entrepreneurship” and Max Weber’s concept of the “spirit of capitalism”. According to Parsons, the embodiment of disinterestedness in advanced capitalism should become a specific type of bureaucracy.

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Příběh prvorepublikového úředníka

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Doležalová A.

Hospodářské dějiny (Economic History)

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2010

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vol. 25

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issue 2

149-166

EN

This interdisciplinary study is based on historical and economic me-thods of research as well as on archive material and theories of bureau-cracy and rent-seeking. It focuses on functional analysis of state bureaucracy in the context of the political and socio-economic system of inter-war Czechoslovakia. The study formulates the main difficulty with the profession: the bu-reau¬cratisation of state administration during this period. The study demonstrates how bureaucracy leads to the formation of a specific social group connected by a social network and pursuing the same goal – to participate on redistribution of public resources and to increase the prestige of their department or agency. This interdisciplinary study is based on both: on one hand on historical and economic method of research and on other hand on archive material and theory of bureaucracy and theory of rent-seeking. The study is aimed on functional analyse of bureaucratic state in the frame of political and socio-economic system of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period.

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The Public Service Ethos Versus Public Management Models

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Mazur S.

Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology

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2013

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vol. 4

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issue 8

95-114

EN

The paper examines the issue of public service ethos and poses a question how that specific culture fits into the framework of public management. The author states that in the early 21st century, the Weberian model of bureaucracy is under increasing pressure of market-logic driven models of public management. On the other hand, an alternative to both classic bureaucracy and modern public management seems to have emerged in the form of public governance theory. In the context of contradictory influences, Poland 's administration finds itself at a crossroads nowadays, as it struggles with the bureaucratic legacy and underdeveloped public service ethos, while entering the foreign land shaped by not entirely compatible logics of the market and public governance.

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Neformální praxe a prostředí byrokracie: role habitu při formování rezistence

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Hulec P.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2019

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issue 1

24-33

EN

This paper examines tactics of resistance among Czech welfare state bureaucrats. I argue that traditional perspectives on worker resistance underplay the role of the employees in the formation of the resistance. The workers choose forms of their resistance on the basis of their habitus and the characteristics of the organizational environment. This balanced approach inspired by the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu helps to deepen the understanding of everyday employee resistance and workplace politics.

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Biurokratyczne załatwianie spraw

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Świderski K.

Studia Prawa Publicznego

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2021

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vol. 1

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issue 33

35-53

EN

The article presents the issue of a bureaucratic disposal of matters by public administration authorities. The letter of dissatisfaction was introduced into Polish law as early as 1950. It was an expression of a negative attitude towards red tape. The prohibition of a bureaucratic disposal of matters is a guideline for the entire public sector. Bureaucracy is the negative behavior of officials: learned helplessness, routine, prejudices against applicants, assurance, conformism, and excessive formalism. The legislator’s pejorative assessment does not refer to bureaucracy itself, but to red tape as a dysfunction of bureaucracy. Red tape is the result of organizational culture. The article presents the model of Weberian bureaucracy and a critique of it. The provisions obliging officials to act in an fair, impartial, reasonable and proper manner are discussed, and the example is given of proper, open, efficient and independent European Union administration. The tool that determines bureaucracy is the document. The creation of excessive amounts of documents, as a manifestation of bureaucracy (red tape), is closely related to the development of office techniques. However, the development of information technology and the dissemination of electronic communication channels have changed the face of bureaucracy. The direct contact between an official with an applicant is changing into screen-level bureaucracy, with the claimant’s application being handled by the IT system. The official’s discretionary power has Hus been significantly reduced. The development of e-administration eliminates inappropriate actions of officials. However, a new type of bureaucracy is emerging by IT experts. Art. 227 of the Code of Administrative Proceedings can become a protective measure against theformalism of e-government.

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Europa Środkowa w koncepcjach biurokracji Unii Europejskiej

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Broniszewski M.

Wschodnioznawstwo

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2017

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issue 11

21-31

EN

This article aims to draw attention to the importance of bureaucracy in the process of European integration and the role of the European bureaucracy, commonly known as the „Brussels bureaucracy” or „Eurocrisis”. At the theoretical level, the essence of the EU bureaucracy was explored in creating the concept of European integration for the countries of Central Europe. In the empirical layer, a macroeconomic analysis was used to define the EU environment model, consisting of the regions of the continent of Europe, to identify phenomena influencing the change of the concept of the European integration process.

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Centrally Planned Allocation of Higher Education Graduates in Romania (1950-1970)

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Cazan M.

International Review of Social Research

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2014

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vol. 4

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issue 2

143-152

EN

The centrally planned compulsory assignment (‘repartition’) of higher education graduates to various socialist enterprises and/or institutions was one of the novelties brought along by the communist system in Romania, closely following the Soviet model. The article focuses on the regulations aspects of how this system actually functioned in the 1950s and 1960s. It demonstrates that in the first stage, the system presented loopholes which allowed some of the graduates to avoid going to the socialist units to which they had been assigned, and the management of these units to refuse to accept graduates they did not really want. Therefore, even if the system was marred by many arbitrary decisions and by ideological considerations that often dwarfed meritocratic criteria, during the 1950s the system allowed for considerable individual bargaining and agency at the margin of official rules. Yet, gradually, the loopholes were closed with the help of targeted bureaucratic regulations, and while meritocratic criteria became increasingly important in the process of assigning higher education graduates to their future workplaces, the system became tighter and allowed for fewer opportunities to circumvent the official rules.

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Wierzbicki J.

Studia BAS

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2016

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issue 3(47)

89-104

EN

The article looks at the relations between the financial law in Poland and various public management theories. The author claims that institutional design of the Polish financial law seems to be rooted in administrative law and orthodox conceptions of bureaucracy, although new ideas and institutions that are implemented might stem from the New Public Management. The author argues that such implementation without prior substantial systemic changes may result in counter-productive effects. Although changes are unquestionably necessary, current reform proposals lack holistic vision of the public finance sector and aim at short-term political benefits.

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Genesis of Administrative Aspect of the II Stream of Security Culture. Western Perspective

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Piwowarski J., Sokołowski W. M.

Security Dimensions: International & National Studies

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2017

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vol. 23(23)

200-212

EN

Administration is one of the crucial systems for functioning of a state – organisation which is supposed to provide security at collective level for its citizens. Values under which administration operates, are important for security culture of the whole society (II stream of security culture). Concept of Max Weber’s ideal type of administration – bureaucracy – was at time of its creation an innovative way of thinking about the state, but as the time passed, several pathologic phenomena had occurred. Authors present here a sketch of Weber’s concept and its influence on temporary erosion of values.

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„BUREAUCRAZY”, CZYLI UCHODŹCY W NIEWOLI PROCEDUR. O BIUROKRACJI W GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN (2015) JENNY ERPENBECK

ОБРАЗ ЧИНОВНИКА-БЮРОКРАТА В РАННЕМ ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ М. ГОРЬКОГО

BIUROKRACJA I BIUROKRACI W RADZIECKIEJ KOMEDII FILMOWEJ

Koncepcja bezinteresowności ekonomicznej Talcotta Parsonsa

Příběh prvorepublikového úředníka

The Public Service Ethos Versus Public Management Models

Neformální praxe a prostředí byrokracie: role habitu při formování rezistence

Biurokratyczne załatwianie spraw

Europa Środkowa w koncepcjach biurokracji Unii Europejskiej

Centrally Planned Allocation of Higher Education Graduates in Romania (1950-1970)

Sprawy wspólne. Rok 1968 i krytyka biurokracji w Polsce i we Francji

MEDICÍNSKA BYROKRACIA A DEHUMANIZÁCIA SUBJEKTU V ZBIERKE IMUNITA OD M. FERENČUHOVEJ

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The Role of Public Administration in the Hungarian Holocaust

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