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Bureaucrats and Revolutionary State-Building in Ireland and Russia. Was Weber Right?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Stephen Velychenko
Stephen Velychenko
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University of Toronto
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Abstract

Abstract. Weber argued that bureaucrats serve whoever holds power even in the case of revolution or enemy occupation because they are more concerned with their jobs, salaries and pensions than with political ideas. His hypothesis has yet to be satisfactorily tested, however, and any such project would have to include all states that emerged from revolutions. As a contribution towards such an examination this paper reviews state building in nationalist Ireland and Bolshevik Russia to determine whether the behaviour of old-regime administrators in those countries proves or disproves Weber's claim.

Résumé. Weber avançait que les bureaucrates servent quiconque est au pouvoir, même en cas de révolution ou d'occupation ennemie, parce qu'ils se soucient davantage de leurs emplois, de leurs salaires et de leurs pensions que d'idées politiques. Son hypothèse n'a cependant jamais été testée de manière satisfaisante et tout projet de ce genre devrait nécessairement inclure tous les États qui sont issus de révolutions. En guise de contribution à un tel examen, cet article examine la création de l'État dans l'Irlande nationaliste et la Russie bolchévique pour déterminer si le comportement des fonctionnaires de l'ancien régime de ces pays confirme ou réfute l'allégation de Weber.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 1 - 22
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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