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| Name | What is Bureaucratic Representativeness? |
| Video Uploader | Video From GreggU |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 17-12-2020 15:00:13 |
| Video Discription | There are several approaches to representation. Should constituents’ opinions and preferences be conveyed to government officials and reflected faithfully in legislative voting? Or, should a representative exercise independent judgment and individual conscience in making decisions? The first option, labeled the “delegate role,” maximizes the public’s impact on decision making but does not take advantage of the representative’s potentially superior knowledge of details and subtleties in making choices. The second, labeled the “trustee role,” emphasizes the representative’s capabilities and the public’s trust that their interests will be faithfully served. In both instances, we are depending on our representatives to somehow serve the public interest. Unfortunately, it is rarely clear how elected officials make their decisions and to whose voices they listen when they do act as delegates. That ambiguity is complicated considerably when the focus shifts to the administrative context. Because bureaucracies in American politics have a representative function, the same sorts of questions must be answered. But, historically, bureaucratic agencies have served narrow clienteles with specialized interests. How can these administrative patterns be reconciled with democratic values that emphasize broad popular representation? A key test for how democratic administrative processes will be is the degree to which representation is inclusive of existing interests in society. Another essential difficulty in representation concerns the delegation of authority. We delegate our authority to legislatures to make our laws, knowing that representation of our every view is imperfect. Legislatures, in turn, have delegated vast amounts of authority to bureaucracies (and to chief executives), further removing decision-making power from the people. When authority is delegated, it must be either very precisely defined and limited, which tends to be impractical and defeats the purpose of delegating, or else discretionary, with those who exercise it largely deciding how it should be used. The issue of representativeness obviously has many sides to it. In general, the effort to increase representativeness based on gender and race is founded on the belief that government would otherwise ignore their concerns in program design and management. |
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