ABSTRACT
The fundamental organizational features of these systems—i.e., the organs of political struggle and of bureaucratic administration—can be considered as ways or mechanisms which insure the continuous interplay between the political and other chief institutional spheres in these societies. In any of the historical bureaucratic societies, their continued prominence was dependent on the nature of the political process that developed in the society. The basic conditions and prerequisites of these political systems were continuously maintained—even when many changes took place in the actual composition and strength of different groups and in the policies of the rulers. In such cases, the various political and administrative organs continued to function, interrelating the political sphere with other social spheres—although there were, necessarily, and alterations in many of the details of their functioning. The differentiated political and social spheres remained distinct, each keeping, so to speak, its separate identity.
