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Another "law" of his is "Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy": In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book Political Parties. [1] It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy , is inevitable as an "iron law" within any democratic organization as part of the "tactical and technical necessities" of the organization.
The Pournelle chart, developed by Jerry Pournelle in his 1963 political science Ph.D. dissertation, is a two-dimensional coordinate system which can be used to distinguish political ideologies. It is similar to the political compass and the Nolan Chart in that it is a two-dimensional chart, but the axes of the Pournelle chart are different from ...
The writer Jerry Pournelle has proposed an "Iron Law of Bureaucracy", which builds on the Iron Law of Oligarchy in a somewhat depressing manner. Should we mention it in the "See also" section of this article? Perhaps as Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy (BTW, I've just edited the Jerry Pournelle article to mention this
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."
Iron law of oligarchy, from Michels' Political Parties; Iron law of processor performance, posited by Joel Emer; Iron law of prohibition, from Cohen's How the Narcs Created Crack; Iron law of bureaucracy, from Jerry Pournelle; Operation Iron Law, a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in March 2011
Jerry Pournelle provides his own variation on this theme: We do not live by rule of law, because no one can possibly go a day without breaking one or another of the goofy laws that have been imposed on us over the years. No one even knows all the laws that apply to almost anything we do now. We live in a time of selective enforcement of law. [17]
Perhaps the addition of a discussion of Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy will provide sufficient amplification of the typical American attitude toward this institution to account for the negative connotation almost universally accorded the concept of bureaucracy in American culture, in which the bureaucratic imperative — however it ...