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Elegir ser y hacerse militar. La formación de una burocracia estatal a partir del estudio de una Promoción del Colegio Militar de la Nación (Argentina, 1979-1982)
Burocracia estatal, Ejército Argentino, oficiales, educación Abstract The article analyzes the recruitment and education process of a traditional bureaucracy of the Argentine national state: the Army officers. Focusing on the officers of a Promotion of the Military College of the Nation who studied at that institute between 1979 and 1982, it characterizes the social profiles of the cadets and their families of origin, determines the reasons why they chose to be in the military, and includes their training as officers in those years. Keywords: State bureaucracy, Argentine Army, officers, education Introducción Los procesos de reclutamiento y educación de los miembros de las burocracias estatales, el conocimiento de sus perfiles y trayectorias profesionales constituyen temáticas abordadas por los estudios sociales del Estado. En las columnas del Patio de Honor \"General San Martín\" del CMN están grabados los nombres de los miembros de cada Promoción conforme el orden de mérito del egreso en ese instituto.
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The Peter principle : why things always go wrong
In satirical fashion, Dr. Laurence J. Peter discusses the 'Peter principle' in terms of its social implications for both the individual employees and the organizations they work in.
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Government of paper
In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes? Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.
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Max Weber's vision for bureaucracy : a casualty of World War I
\"This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy. It suggests that Weber's vision shares common components with the highly efficient Prussian General Staff military bureaucracy developed by Clausewitz and Helmuth von Moltke. Weber did not believe that Germany's other major institutions, the Civil Service, industry, or the army could deliver world class performances since he believed that they pursued narrow, selfish interests. However, following Weber's death in 1920, the model published by his wife Marianne contained none of the military material about which Weber had written approvingly in the early chapters of Economy and Society. Glynn Cochrane concludes that Weber's model was unlikely to include military material after the Versailles peace negotiations (in which Weber participated) outlawed the Prussian General Staff in 1919.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China
Using a model of \"fragmented authoritarianism,\" this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering among officials on the national, provincial, and local levels. CONTRIBUTORS:Nina P. HalpernCarol Lee HamrinDavid M. LamptonKenneth G. LieberthalMelanie ManionBarry NaughtonLynne PaineJonathan D. PollackSusan L. ShirkPaul E. SchroederAndrew G. WalderDavid Zweig This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
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