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bureaucracy

administrative system governing any large institution
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Summary

bureaucracy is a political system[1]. bureaucracy ranks in the top 2% of political system entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,638 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: tripartite classification of authority[3], public administration[4]
  • Commons category: Bureaucracy[5]
  • Opposite of: adhocracy[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bureaucracy[7]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory[8], Otto's encyclopedia[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[12], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[13]
  • Has effect: iron law of oligarchy[14]
  • Practiced by: bureaucrat[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Sociology[17], WikiProject Business[18], WikiProject Politics[19], WikiProject Organizations[20], WikiProject Law[21]

Why It Matters

bureaucracy has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] bureaucracy is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Geoffrey Chaucer I, Daniel Blake public administration The Castle

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → bureaucracy
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: bureaucracy, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920651|bureaucracy (#289920651)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2l8M5L
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 15w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → ['Q5469988', 'Q188619']
    "/* wbsetreference-set:2| */ Has characteristic: hierarchy, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P356]]"
  4. 15w ago · Jeanne Noiraud · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → ['Q5469988', 'Q188619']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has characteristic: formalization"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0234414-byrokracie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0234414-byrokracie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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