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Continuing in the standard of excellence set by previous editions, this sixth edition assesses the bureaucracies and development of governments around the world-providing helpful and revealing analyses of the relationships between bureaucracies and political regimes. With over 1000 literature references, tables, and drawings, the book has been upda

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• Preface(p. v)
• 1. Comparison in the Study of Public Administration(p. 1)
• Public Administration as a Field of Study
• Significance of Comparison
• Problems of Comparison
• Postwar Evolution of Comparative Studies
• The Heyday of the Comparative Administration Movement
• Retrenchment, Reappraisals, and Recommendations
• Prospects and Options
• Notes
• 2. A Focus for Comparison(p. 69)
• Bureaucracy as a Focus
• Concepts of Bureaucracy
• The Prevalence of Public Bureaucracy
• Organizational Setting
• The Ecology of Administration
• Models of Administrative Systems
• Notes
• 3. Concepts of System Transformation(p. 107)
• Modernization
• Development
• Change
• Notes
• 4. Historical Antecedents of National Administrative Systems(p. 153)
• Organizing Concepts for Historical Interpretation
• Ancient World Origins
• Imperial Rome and Byzantium
• European Feudalism
• Rise of European Absolutist Monarchies
• Emergence of the Nation-State
• Notes
• 5. Administration in More Developed Nations: General Characteristics and "Classic" Administrative Systems(p. 189)
• Shared Political and Administrative Characteristics
• "Classic" Administrative Systems
• Notes
• 6. Administration in More Developed Nations: Some Variations in Administrative Systems(p. 221)
• Administration in "The Civic Culture"
• Adaptive Modernizing Administration--Japan
• "Second Tier" Examples
• Notes
• 7. Administration in Less Developed Nations(p. 275)
• The Ideology of Development
• The Politics of Development
• Political Regime Variations
• Common Administrative Patterns
• Notes
• 8. Bureaucratic-Prominent Political Regimes(p. 313)
• Traditional Elite Systems
• Personalist Bureaucratic Elite Systems
• Collegial Bureaucratic Elite Systems
• Pendulum Systems
• Notes
• 9. Party-Prominent Political Regimes(p. 371)
• Polyarchal Competitive Systems
• Dominant-Party Semicompetitive Systems
• Dominant-Party Mobilization Systems
• Communist Totalitarian Systems
• Notes
• 10. An Overview of Bureaucracies and Political Systems(p. 425)
• Political Ends and Administrative Means
• Relating Bureaucratic and Political Development
• Testing the Imbalance Thesis
• The Significance of Political System Variation
• A Concluding Comment
• Notes
• Author Index(p. 455)
• Subject Index(p. 461)

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Ferrel Heady is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Political Science in the School of Public Administration at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque