Introduction

Abstract

The first book I ever wrote — although the second book to get published — was The Politics of Bureaucracy, a study of large hierarchies. Although it is now partially obsolete, many of its parts have still not been fully integrated into the existing literature. This book is not a sequel, but is an effort to reconsider the whole problem from the beginning. It will deal with a number of problems that were not considered there: for example, why we have large hierarchies. There is also the problem of why so many hierarchies are small.