Contiene índice temático y de nombres pp. 505-513

This book (as well as the conference out of which it emanates) is an effort to direct attention to the vital role that bureaucracies can and do play in the various kinds of transformations that the developing nations are experiencing. While some attention is accorded certain problems and phenomena of social and economic change, the major focus is on political development. It goes without saying that we need to know more than we do about the forces that mold one configuration of political institutions rather than another. If, as we assume, the bureaucratic sector in most of the developing nations is to be heavily involved in the general processes of transformation, we must be able to suggest with greater confidence than is presently possible what alternative roles are open to the bureaucracy -and with what probable consequences for the emerging political systems.