598 Pages
by
Routledge
598 Pages
by
Routledge
574 Pages
by
Routledge
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Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative... Read more
1: Introduction to the Transaction Edition; 1: Preface to the First Paperback Edition; 1: Preface; One: Conditions of Development of the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires; 1: The Historical Bureaucratic Polities The Setting and the Problem; 2: The Fundamental Characteristics of the Political Systems and the Social Conditions of Their Development Basic Hypotheses; 3: The Economic Structure of the Historical Bureaucratic Societies; 4: Religious and Cultural Organization and Orientation; 5: Social Organization and Stratification; 6: The Social Conditions and the Institutionalization of the Political Systems; Two: Conditions of Perpetuation of the Political Systems of the Historical Bureaucratic Empires; 7: The Policies of the Rulers; 8: The Political Orientations and Activities of the Major Groups and Strata; 9: The Social Determinants of the Political Processes A Comparative Analysis; 10: The Place of the Bureaucracy in the Political Process; 11: The Place of the Political Process in the Social Structures of the Centralized Empires; 12: Processes of Change in the Political Systems; 13: Conclusions
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Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
