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Preface | |
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Comparison in the Study of Public Administration | |
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Public Administration as a Field of Study | |
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Significance of Comparison | |
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Problems of Comparison | |
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Postwar Evolution of Comparative Studies | |
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The Heyday of the Comparative Administration Movement | |
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Retrenchment, Reappraisals, and Recommendations | |
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Prospects and Options | |
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Notes | |
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A Focus for Comparison | |
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Bureaucracy as a Focus | |
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Concepts of Bureaucracy | |
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The Prevalence of Public Bureaucracy | |
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Organizational Setting | |
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The Ecology of Administration | |
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Models of Administrative Systems | |
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Notes | |
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Concepts of System Transformation | |
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Modernization | |
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Development | |
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Change | |
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Notes | |
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Historical Antecedents of National Administrative Systems | |
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Organizing Concepts for Historical Interpretation | |
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Ancient World Origins | |
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Imperial Rome and Byzantium | |
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European Feudalism | |
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Rise of European Absolutist Monarchies | |
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Emergence of the Nation-State | |
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Notes | |
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Administration in More Developed Nations: General Characteristics and "Classic" Administrative Systems | |
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Shared Political and Administrative Characteristics | |
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"Classic" Administrative Systems | |
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Notes | |
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Administration in More Developed Nations: Some Variations in Administrative Systems | |
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Administration in "The Civic Culture" | |
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Adaptive Modernizing Administration--Japan | |
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"Second Tier" Examples | |
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Notes | |
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Administration in Less Developed Nations | |
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The Ideology of Development | |
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The Politics of Development | |
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Political Regime Variations | |
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Common Administrative Patterns | |
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Notes | |
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Bureaucratic-Prominent Political Regimes | |
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Traditional Elite Systems | |
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Personalist Bureaucratic Elite Systems | |
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Collegial Bureaucratic Elite Systems | |
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Pendulum Systems | |
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Notes | |
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Party-Prominent Political Regimes | |
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Polyarchal Competitive Systems | |
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Dominant-Party Semicompetitive Systems | |
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Dominant-Party Mobilization Systems | |
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Communist Totalitarian Systems | |
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Notes | |
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An Overview of Bureaucracies and Political Systems | |
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Political Ends and Administrative Means | |
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Relating Bureaucratic and Political Development | |
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Testing the Imbalance Thesis | |
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The Significance of Political System Variation | |
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A Concluding Comment | |
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Notes | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |