The State and public bureaucracies : a comparative perspective

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The State and public bureaucracies : a comparative perspective

edited by Metin Heper

(Contributions in political science, no. 193)

Greenwood Press, 1987

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Bibliography: p. 193-197

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This study offers an unprecedented examination of the state, politics, and bureaucracy from a historical and comparative perspective. Case histories of a wide variety of bureaucratic traditions are provided in an effort to text a new theoretical approach in which the theory of the state and the theory of bureaucracy, both of which have so far developed without systematic interaction, are merged. Beginning with a chapter elucidating the editor's theoretical framework, the volume proceeds to compare state tradition and bureaucratic structures in both developed countries. Essays are included on nonstate societies--the United States and Great Britain--as well as classical state societies such as France and Germany.

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Preface Part Theoretical Backdrop Introduction by Metin Heper The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative and Historical Perspective by Metin Heper Part II. Anglo-American Context The United States: The Anti-Statist Society by Ronald Glassman Development of an Unpretentious Bureaucracy: The Case of England by Henry Parris Part III. Continental Europe Context Emergence and Decline of the State in Ancient Rome by Robert J. Antonio France: Polity with a Strong State by Pierre Birnbaum State and Bureaucracy in Prussia and Germany by Hans-Ulrich Derlien Part IV. Non-Western Context Autocracy in Nineteenth- Century Russia by Donald V. Schwartz State, Democracy and Bureaucracy in Turkey by Metin Heper Neo-Patrimonial State in Indonesia by Nico G. Schulte Nordholdt Part V. State, 'Government' and Bureaucracy State and Bereaucracy: The Anglo-American Case Reviewd by C.H. Dodd Strong and Weak States: Some Reconsiderations by S.N. Eisenstadt Conclusion by Metin Heper Select Bibliography Index About the Contributors

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