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BUREAUCRACY AND SOCIETY IN TRANSITION
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Transition into modernity takes very different roads, depending on the
sequencing of bureaucracy and democratic regime. This is demonstrated by
comparing Sweden and Greece. At an early stage of the long-term modernisation
of Swedish society, due to early penetration of the internal territory and
before the extension of suffrage and political modernisation, a number of
state organisations were established at the interstices between state and society,
creating direct relations between the state and society. The impressive
Lantmäteriet, the organisation of tax authorities, the establishment of
authorities for registering the population and the Tabellverket are typical
illustrations of such organisational structures. Such organisations functioned
as social mechanisms that elucidated society making it legible and thus
strengthened the infrastructural capacity of the state. In Greece, where the
state was built after political modernisation, the establishment of similar
organisations proved to be more difficult. Although there is evidence that
similar Swedish practices were known in Greece to be possible paths, they
were not chosen. The establishment of a land registry system, for instance,
was discussed in the decades prior to the 1871 land reform. On other issues,
such choices could not be materialised given opposition or political countermobilisation to abolish the reforms after they were approved by parliament.
These reform efforts were rather short-lived or countered by new reforms and
exemptions, creating an ambiguous labyrinth of regulations of state
society relations and a state without the capacity to intervene in society and implement logistically political decisions throughout the realm. On the whole, the
state remained a distant entity, mostly a distrusted one, and relations between
HALDOR BYRKJEFLOT - Personal Name
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ENGLISH
EMERALD
2018
ENGLAND
ILMU PEMERINTAHAN
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HALDOR BYRKJEFLOT. (2018).BUREAUCRACY AND SOCIETY IN TRANSITION.(Electronic Thesis or Dissertation). Retrieved from https://localhost/etd