Who among the following said, "Bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy"?

De'Gournay coined the term bureaucracy.

Key Points

• In a parliamentary democracy, bureaucracy provides stability in an often unstable polity.
• Members of Parliament have limited time to deal with administrative matters.
• Bureaucrats must also be very disciplined and follow the regulations in order to protect ethical ideals.
• Bureaucracy's contribution to governmental administration is not minor. 
• It has made administration more efficient, rational, impartial, and consistent.
• Herbert Morrison said, "Bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy."
• Morrison said this to highlight the merit of bureaucracy. 

​Thus, Herbert Morrison said, "Bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy".

Additional Information

• Max Weber described bureaucracy as an institutional approach to applying general rules to specific instances in order to make government operations fair and predictable.
• Ramsay Muir was a British historian, Liberal Party politician, and thinker who made a significant contribution to the development of liberal political philosophy in the 1920s and 1930s through his work on domestic industrial policy and his promotion of the international policy of interdependency.