The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative Perspective

by Metin Heper

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313254389
• ISBN13: 9780313254383
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"