Routledge is proud to publish the fifth edition of this comprehensive, comparative exploration of the political and policy-making roles of public bureaucracies in nations around the world.

Written by a leading authority in the field, it offers an extensive, well documented, comparative analysis stressing the effects of politics and organised interests on bureaucracy.

New to the fifth edition:

a new chapter on administrative reform

more material on administration in developing countries

more coverage of the European Union and more discussion of international bureaucracies

revision and up-dating to take into account the wealth of new literature that has emerged in recent years