The Greensill scandal

The growing scandal in the UK over corporate lobbing of government – which has implicated the former Prime Minister David Cameron as well as a former civil servant – is a reminder of the uses of bureaucracy and the dangers of its abandonment. Max Weber’s ideal-type bureaucracy is most closely associated with the State civil service, and many of its tenets can be seen in the traditional model of the British Civil Service which emerged from the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report (although in more com