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Who viewed Weber’s bureaucratic model as a “paradigm” of Public Administration ?
Answer: B
The key gives Dwight Waldo.
Textbooks of administrative thought record that Waldo regarded Weber's ideal-type bureaucracy as the dominant paradigm of public administration: the model against which other theories, and especially comparative studies of administration, were framed and tested. Weber's model was the reference point for the discipline through the middle of the twentieth century.
Michel Crozier used the Weberian model as a foil, showing in The Bureaucratic Phenomenon how French bureaucracy departed from it. Herbert Simon built his own decision-making framework and criticised the classical theories. Mary Parker Follett wrote on conflict, coordination and the 'law of the situation' and did not present Weber's model as the paradigm.
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