November 2010
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Harry Potter and the half-crazed bureaucracy. →
mlq3:
A truly delightful, even marvelous, paper by Benjamin Barton.
Abstract
This Essay examines what the Harry Potter series (and particularly the most recent book, The Half-Blood Prince) tells us about government and bureaucracy. There are two short answers. The first is that Rowling presents a government (The Ministry of Magic) that is 100% bureaucracy. There is no discernable executive or...