The book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence. The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational...

This paper compares the systems of public employment in Germany, France, Great Britain and Sweden and analyses to which extent qualitative changes concerning the employment regulation and personnel systems in these countries occurred since the beginning of the 1980s. Starting from similar civil...