In the book Polity:Political Culture and the Nature of Politics, Craig L. Carr explains how bureaucracies work and how hierarchical they should be; “The centralized management necessary for bureaucratic effectiveness requires hierarchical organization, and hierarchical organization involves levels of authority understandable in terms of superiors and subordinates. (Carr, 2007, p.157) He goes on to explain the inefficiencies of the bureaucratic system and how these inefficiencies contributed to tragedies such as the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. The United States of America claims to be a nation democratic. but in retrospect, the ideals of bureaucracy come into conflict with democracy. We can see from Carr's argument that the bureaucratic system has many flaws. And we can observe that “bureaucratic necessity is therefore on a collision course with the liberal ideals” that the United States claims to have. (Carr, 2007, p. 175). are the reason why things get done in a bureaucratic system. These are the soldiers who listen to their commanders and follow the rules and directives that they give them. Again, this is how things happen. Carr states: “Like any bureaucracy, the military depends on the expertise of its commanders and the loyalty of its subordinates. Everyone must understand their role in the organization, and everyone must fulfill their organizational responsibilities. officer? When we look at the bureaucratic system and its effectiveness with its "foot soldiers", I think it is ...... middle of paper ...... blindly down because we have no other choice than to trust. the man above us. Whether this man is as corrupt as Hitler or as honest as everyone believes Pope Benedict XVI to be, there remains complete trust in the superior man. Being human, this trust will fail and the availability for corruption caused by selfish people will remain. Although there is no real solution to people's selfishness and their own agendas, people still control to some extent who is at the top and who these people we look up to are. Ultimately, we choose our will and we blindly choose who we follow. It is not the faith itself that we place in people that is corrupted, but the people we trust who can sometimes be corrupted. Works Cited Carr, C. (2007). Politics: political culture and nature of politics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.