Max Weber

Max Weber was a German philosopher, economist and sociologist considered one of the most important thinkers in Public Administration, and one of the founders.
Weber published an extensive bibliography about the institutions. He gave them the name of bureaucracy and designated the 20^th century such as the bureaucracy century.

Weber’s main contributions to Public Administration were: firstly, the term bureaucracy and the bureaucratic model; secondly, the classification of kind of authorities.

The term bureaucracy means the administrative and personnel structure of an organization. Weber also showed the basic rules of a bureaucratic model: chain of command, paid staff, appointment regarding merits, etc.

In the classification of authorities, Weber shows three kinds: traditional authority (power derived from the habit), charismatic authority (power derived from his personality) and legal, rational or bureaucratic authority (power derived from the rules).

These contributions are studied to date; these are the importance now days too. I found out Weber because I studied his importance in some classes like administrative theory, organizations theory and introduction to the study of government.