War and Bureaucratization in Qin China: Exploring an Anomalous Case

Why did a partially bureaucratized administrative system develop in Qin China about two millennia before it did in European states? In this paper, comparative historical arguments about war and state-making are combined with agency theory to answer this question. The Spring and Autumn and Warring St...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American sociological review 2003-08, Vol.68 (4), p.511
Hauptverfasser:	Kiser, Edgar, Cai, Yong
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	17th century Administrative Organization Aristocracy Bureaucracy Bureaucratization Byzantine civilization Chinese history Comparative analysis Empires History Persistence Political history Politics Principal-agent models Social Scientists Social Structure Sociology War
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