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The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

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Max Weber
Age: 56 †
Born: 1864
Born: April 21
Died: 1920
Died: June 14
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