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Leopards in the Temple

Bureaucracy and the Limits of the in-between

David John Farmer

Virginia Commonwealth University

Rosemary L. Farmer

Virginia Commonwealth University

This article examines a core problematic of bureaucracy. It suggests that the study of bureaucracy should make a clearer non bureaucratic turn, focusing appropriately on what is described as the in-between. Analysis of structural limits of the in-between-hierarchy and lateralization-should center on the nonbureaucratic. Structure is not the central issue. Rather, structure is a surrogate for competing manifest and latent nonbureaucratic perspectives. Hierarchy is a surrogate not only for a rational order of justice but also for the feasibility of epistemological certainty. Lateralization is a surrogate not only for human autonomy but also for skepticism and hesitation in knowing. The study of bureaucracy cannot be limited satisfactorily to "bureaucratic man. " Rather; humans are irreducibly bio-psychospirituo-social-cultural beings.

Administration & Society, Vol. 29, No. 5, 507-528 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/009539979702900501
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