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The Malayan Bureaucracy and its Occupational Communities: a Comment on James de Vere Allen's ‘Malayan Civil Service 1874–1941’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Gayl D. Ness
Gayl D. Ness
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan
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Few sociologists would quarrel with Dr. Allen's use of the term bureaucracy in his analysis of the Malayan colonial government. Nor could one argue that he has failed to come to grips with certain central sociological issues in the analysis of bureaucracies. On the contrary, Dr. Allen has given us an excellent case study that illuminates some of the dynamics of the bureaucratic processes.

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Bureaucracy
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1970 , pp. 179 - 187
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1970

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