Chapter Overview

This chapter looks at the public administration of the state and bureaucracies. It discusses one of the main problems posed by public administration (the fact that a large amount of government power is not under close political control) and the qualities of good public administration. The chapter then goes into the emergence, features, and functions of bureaucracies and the problems they face. The chapter ends with detailed discussions of bureaucracies in France and Saudi Arabia.

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