Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Preface to the Garland Edition; Preface; Glossary; Part One: The Problem; Chapter One Politics and Administration; Chapter Two The Political Setting for Bureaucratic Conflict; Part Two Policies; Introduction; Chapter Three The Caprivi Commercial Treaties; Chapter Four The Mittelland Canal; Chapter Five The Bülow Tariff; Chapter Six The 1908/09 Imperial Finance Reform; Part Three Explanations; Chapter Seven Bureaucratic Conflict and its Determinants; Chapter Eight Toward an Explanation of Bureaucratic Conflict; Appendix A
Summary
This book addresses major theoretical issues in the fields of public administration and comparative politics. It discusses the role which ideology played as a unifying force for at least parts of the German state bureaucracy in Wilhelmine Germany . The examination of a modernizing ideology in the German case is useful for an understanding of the political dynamics of state-led modernization and industrial strategy in many contemporary societies and the author explains political behaviour and relations in Germany in general terms that are universally relevant
