Abstract
This paper explores some of the theoretical limitations of classical theory of bureaucracy.
It also analyses Pakistani bureaucracy’s organisational composition and behaviour which
reveals that the Pakistan’s civil administrative structure is incongruent with the principles
indoctrinated in the classical theory of bureaucracy postulated by Max Webber. When
the civil bureaucracy of a state trespasses into the domain of other institutions including
the political ones, the very character of the civil administration becomes politicised and
this phenomenon is evident in the case of Pakistan. Likewise, the civil administrative
institutions are routinely pressurised for manipulating and twisting their rule-bound
operating procedures in accordance with the vested interests of politicians. This makes
the politicisation of administration inevitable and the concept of ‘legal rational authority’,
a highly idealised principle. The organisational and institutional analysis of Pakistan’s
civil bureaucracy illustrates that it is a poor materialisation of the classical model of
bureaucracy mainly because this system of administration was inherited from the epoch
of colonial rule and as such it was never a manifestation of the theory of bureaucracy in
the first place.
Aamer Taj. (2017) The Role of Civil Bureaucracy—Facilitative or Regressive? Perspectives from Pakistan, The Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Volume-25, Issue-1.
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