F.G. BaileyThinkers

Bureaucracy is a system of administration whereby the goal is to find a rule for every conceivable situation so that leadership is unnecessary and no one ever need be in doubt about what the right thing to do is.

Bureaucracy is the undermining of political leadership in that its job is to promote a kind of stability that is free from ambiguity, and thus has no need of the kinds of decisions that call for leadership.

An Institution is any interaction that is bound by rules, be it football, boxing, capitalism, literary criticism.

Leadership is the ability to hold onto followers despite ignoring facts.

Normativity is the rules that prescribe proper forms of interaction.

Politics is the study of persons in authority, which is to say the institutions we use to manage public affairs, to govern, to keep things orderly.

Politics is the study of persons in authority.

Strategy is (in the case of devising a strategy or understanding another person's strategy) is akin to making sense of the world.

Structure is 'rocklike' in a system.

The Universal is a notion that what occurs in a particular case may also occur elsewhere. It has to do with heuristic and analytic procedures, not existences.

The Universal is a way to explain what goes on in social and political systems.

Universality is not an anticipated result, but a heuristic or rule to guide research. It is simply the presupposition that that which occurs in a particular case may also occur elsewhere.