Transitions from Authoritarianism
Subtitle: The Role of the Bureaucracy
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: October 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780275964580
Subjects: Central government; Political structures: democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - Comparative; Political Process - General; Practical Politics; World - General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Authoritarianism; Bureaucracy; Civil service reform; Democratization; Europe, Eastern
First sentence: The unexpected, rapid, and relatively pacific unraveling of the Soviet Union is better understood when it is seen as a collapse not just of an entrenched ideology, a set of beliefs about social means for attaining such ideals as equality and freedom from want, but also of an administrative system meant for its realization.