Bureaucracy, aristocracy, and autocracy : the Prussian experience, 1660-1815

Preface Contents Introduction i The Emergence of Dynastic Absolutism The Rise of Public Law and the Old Official Hierarchy The Composition of the New Bureaucratic Elite The Alliance between the Merit and the Spoils System Discipline and Loyalty: Incentives, Rewards, and Penalties Inter- and Intraservice Relations and the Reorganization of the Old Hierarchy The Formation and Transformation of the Bureaucratic Nobility The Emancipation from Monarchical Autocracy The Emergence of Bureaucratic Absolutism Index