Weber's scorecard : state development, bureaucracy, and officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne /

Max Weber's influential understanding of bureaucracy is explored through an examination of the development of officialdom in six European territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Taking a long-term perspective from the ninth century to the present, it looks beyond nati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Page, Edward (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Edition:First edition
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Siege of the Saxons
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Patrimonialism and ninth-century government
  • 3 Twelfth-century feudal officialdom
  • 4 Growing intensity in the fifteenth century
  • 5 Absolutism, bureaucracy, and eighteenth-century fiscal-military states
  • 6 Constitutional officialdom: The 1950s and after
  • 7 Weber's scorecard
  • 8 If not Weber, then what?