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By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Etat [L' ] --- Staat [De ] --- State [The ] --- Notaries --- France --- Decentralization in government --- Social structure --- Notaries - France. --- Decentralization in government - France. --- State, The. --- Social structure - France. --- HISTORY / Europe / France. --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions

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This book suggests some of the ways in which levels of development shape public sector reform and privatization in developed and developing countries, showing that conservative as well as socialist governments were committed to increasing the state's guiding role in the political economy.

Government ownership. --- Government business enterprises --- Privatization. --- Privatization

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This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity of European politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently help the organization bolster its defenses against the external threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish themselves as the 'custodians of Europe'. The book helps disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic that has received little attention.

Bureaucracy --- Interorganizational relations --- Political science --- Public administration --- Organizational sociology --- European Commission. --- European Union. --- E.U. --- European Communities. Commission --- Commission of the European Communities --- Europese Gemeenschappen. Commissie --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- EC --- Europese Commissie --- Commission européenne