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Pen, Sword, and People: Military Regimes in the Formation of Political Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Edward Feit
Edward Feit
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Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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Bureaucrats perceive politics bureaucratically. They would wish it to be an orderly process. Therefore, when officers of “new” or “developing” nations take power, they seek to legitimize the administrative state. Their model is bureaucracy, but government and administration are found to be very different from the model. Organization does not meet all problems; neither does the issuance of “the right orders.” The goals of administration cannot be achieved without the active compliance of much of the population. What is more, compliance must be active: passive acceptance alone is not enough.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , January 1973 , pp. 251 - 273
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1973

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