Analysis of the Weberian model in the Ecuadorian bureaucracy.

Abstract

The Ecuadorian public administration underwent qualitative and quantitative regulatory changes since the issuance of the 2008 Constitution and the Organic Law of Public Service in 2014. Constitutionally and legally there is legislation for an efficient and effective public administration. However, it has not been possible to obtain good administrative practices that reflect an optimal execution of the standard.

There is a deep conviction that the Ecuadorian public administration urgently needs a deep and complex action that involves updating the state apparatus. There are several theories that refer to the management of the res publica; Many of them could help us compare how the Ecuadorian public administration is managed. In this sense, in the present work the bureaucratic theory developed by Max Weber has been chosen, which consists of six principles that will be exposed throughout this essay.

Likewise, with a view to verifying whether these principles are applied in Ecuadorian public institutions and whether their use means their improvement, the Weberian principles have been reviewed in accordance with Ecuadorian legislation and the administrative practices of public institutions that are part the Executive Function of the Ecuadorian State.

To carry out the present analysis, a descriptive-comparative methodology was applied between the Weberian principles, the constitutional norms, secondary norms and the reality in the administrative practice of the Ecuadorian public institutions. The sources of data production cover the normative analysis, as well as the information obtained from the web pages of the different ministries and data provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, an institution that will be the object of this study.