ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines development of the civil service into five phases by J. C. N. Raadschelders and M. R. Rutgers. It analyses the development of the civil service in terms of the characteristics of functionaries. Changes in the size of government in the twentieth century are often operationalized in terms of government share in the gross national product. Literature concerning the size of government can be divided into two categories. The first is that which approaches size in subjective terms, the second approaches size in empirical terms. One of the most remarkable characteristics of bureaucratization is an adequate regular salary and pension in money. Civil servants/administrative personnel are those that fulfill bureau-writing and administrative tasks. They work in an office and their work requires only intellectual ability. These are the white collar workers, such as a town clerk, a treasurer, a municipal engineer, the civil service, and so forth.
