ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |96 pages
The Problem
chapter |40 pages
Politics and Administration
chapter |55 pages
The Political Setting for Bureaucratic Conflict
part |231 pages
Policies
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
chapter |82 pages
The Caprivi Commercial Treaties
chapter |35 pages
The Mittelland Canal
chapter |44 pages
The Bülow Tariff
chapter |66 pages
The 1908/09 Imperial Finance Reform
part |72 pages
Explanations