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"developing" countries (1999), we also know empirically that Weberianism, especially
the Merit principle, "significantly enhance[s] prospects of economic growth." (748)
And these findings have been backed up most recently by the fact that Weberianism
has worked very well indeed in the transition states of Central and Eastern Europe, in
that the ranking of their economic and social success, especially if one looks at
Hungary, is not by accident very similar to that of their Weberianness.
As the very last argument, doesn't information and communication technology (ICT)
change this? In a world of e-governance, isn't Weberianism, new or old, hopelessly
obsolete? As all research on the subject matter has shown although this is
perhaps the most fashionable field of research, and thus the one with the worst
overall results , it is not. The written form does not become less real if it takes the