ABSTRACT
The people can fail to notice the process of bureaucratisation that swept the Arab world since the 1950s. Bureaucratisation includes two things: bureaucratic growth and orientation. The Arab states are classified along three scales: 'old' vs 'new', 'large' vs 'small' and 'rich' vs 'poor'. It is possible to argue that the expansion and role of the public bureaucracy are affected by the position of any particular Arab state along these three scales. This chapter talks about the bureaucracy implemented on Egypt and three Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The dynamics of bureaucratic growth in a number of Arab countries is described before people investigate possible reasons for expansion. Some of the reasons for bureaucratic growth are entrenched in the social and political conditions of the society. The dynamics of bureaucratisation are quite easy to comprehend in a hydraulic society with old state traditions like Egypt.
