Ralph P. Hummel was a professor of public administration at the University of Akron and a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Applied Phenomenology in Science and Technology.
Education
Hummel graduated from Wayne State University where he worked for The Daily Collegian. He worked as a reporter and editor for the New York Times and Washington Post, among other papers He received his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from New York University in 1972. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis examined the concept of charisma in the works of Max Weber.
Career
He is best known for his book He taught at Fordham University, State University of New York at Fredonia, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Oklahoma. After 10 years as a professor at the University of Akron in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, he retired in 2008 and became professor emeritus. Hummel"s most famous work was the book which went through five editions (1977, 1982, 1987, 1994, and 2008).
The book contends that bureaucracy is dehumanizing.
Foreign example, it deals with cases instead of people, and it focuses on efficiency at the expense of other human values. Hummel also wrote The Real American Politics: Changing Perspectives on American Government (January 1986) and Politics for Human Beings with Robert A. Isaak (1975).
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Politics
Politics for Human Beings (2nd ed). American Review of Public Administration 20 (4): 303–314.