us an opportunity to investigate the political economy of administrative hierarchy. Using prefecture-level panel data and … exploiting regime changes during AD1000-2000, we find that gaining and losing importance in the political hierarchy led to the … rise and decline of different prefectures (measured by population density and urbanization). Moreover, political hierarchy …

us an opportunity to investigate the political economy of administrative hierarchy. Using prefecture-level panel data and … exploiting regime changes during AD1000-2000, we find that gaining and losing importance in the political hierarchy led to the … rise and decline of different prefectures (measured by population density and urbanization). Moreover, political hierarchy …

hierarchy …

What determines the distribution of information acquired within the hierarchy of a public organization? Without market … processes, the generation and absorption of information in bureaucracy relies on individual actors undertaking costly action to …

established organizational forms, Weberian bureaucracy and Mintzberg's adhocracy. More particularly, building on the four …