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Bureaucratic Politics in Radical Military Regimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Gregory J. Kasza
Gregory J. Kasza*
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Indiana University
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Abstract

Most theories of bureaucratic politics depict state bureaucracies as a conservative force in the political system. Their resistance to radical politics and innovative programs is attributed to certain typical traits of bureaucratic structures and career patterns. I summarize the arguments for bureaucratic conservatism, and then describe how civilian bureaucracies serving military regimes in Japan (1937–45), Peru (1968–75), and Egypt (1952–70) invalidated those arguments by promoting radical policy programs through the three devices of supraministerial bodies, low-ranking ministries, and new specialized agencies. I conclude that middle theories of bureaucratic politics may prove more fruitful than grand theoretical attempts to encompass all bureaucracies in a single set of propositions, and that structural and occupational explanations of bureaucratic behavior need to be modified by a greater appreciation for the role of individual bureaucratic leaders.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 851 - 872
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1987

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