Do Modern Bureaucracies Dominate Underdeveloped Polities? A Test of the Imbalance Thesis

Lee Sigelman

American Political Science Review, 1972, vol. 66, issue 2, 525-528

Abstract: This research note analyzes a key premise of the thesis of “institutional imbalance” in less developed nations, the idea that administrative modernity promotes overparticipation in the performance of political and governmental functions. Judgmental data on fifty-seven Latin American, Asian, and African nations suggest that level of administrative development is highly correlated with overparticipation, but in precisely the opposite direction from that predicted in the literature— that is, the relationship is negative. This finding indicates the necessity of reconsidering some of the conventional wisdom of comparative administration.

Date: 1972
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