Weber's Scorecard: State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Preface: Siege of the Saxons
Contents
1 Introduction
	Aims of the book
	Scope of the book
	The Weberian approach to bureaucratic development
		Defining bureaucracy
	The character of bureaucratic development
	Developing the argument
2 Patrimonialism and ninth-century government
	Political order of ninth-century systems
	Secretariat officialdom
	Territorial officialdom
	Service officialdom
	England, Hungary, and Sweden
	Conclusion
3 Twelfth-century feudal officialdom
	Political order and political geography
	Fragmented service officialdom outside the centre
	Strengthening territorial officialdom
	Secretariat officialdom
	The development of service officialdom in the centre
	Conclusion: Moving towards bureaucratization?
4 Growing intensity in the fifteenth century
	Intensification of service officialdom
	Increasing interpenetration: Territorial officialdom
	Secretariat officialdom and intensification
	Conclusion: Assessing bureaucratism in fifteenth-century officialdom
5 Absolutism, bureaucracy, and eighteenth-century fiscal-military states
	Secretariat officialdom: The organizational structures of monarchical government
	Territorial officialdom and the development of `commissary\' officials
	The wider integration of service officialdom and secretariat officialdom
	The growth of the ‘legislative state\'
	Professionalization, employment, and knowledge
	Professionalism as scientific knowledge
	`Fiscal-military states\' and monocracy
		Monarchical control of secretariat officialdom
		Territorial government
		Efficiency, bureaucracy, and the fiscal-military state
	L\'tat de passe-droit
	Conclusion
6 Constitutional officialdom: The 1950s and after
	The expansion and organization of service officialdom
	Ministries and the transformation of secretariat officialdom
	The withering of territorial officialdom
	Bureaucratism in constitutional government
		Structural differentiation
		Professionalization
		Formalism
		Monocracy
	Conclusion
7 Weber\'s scorecard
	The four structural variables
		Structural differentiation
		Professionalization
		Formalism
		Monocracy
	The character of bureaucratization
	Final score
	A quick look over the shoulder before driving off
8 If not Weber, then what?
	Searching for theories
		Bureaucratic development is not a syndrome
		Bureaucratic development is not predominantly state-oriented
		Bureaucratization as a long haul
	Understanding longer-term patterns
		Francis Fukuyama\'s account
		Routinization
		Institutional integration
		The instrumentalization of law
		European bureaucracy in perspective
	Concluding remarks
References
Index