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Sto caricando le informazioni... Perils of Centralization: Lessons from Church, State, and Corporation (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)di Ken Kollman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. How centralized or decentralized should organizations be? Which approach is better? this book looks at numerous examples throughout history to discuss the advantages and disadvantages and the lessons learned. ( ) This book is ambitious. The author strives to analyze and compare four cases of power centralization: American and European government, the Catholic church and General Motors. He builds the comparison on the theory that a strongly positioned leader in a federated system will absorb power and make subsequent decentralization difficult to achieve. The first two chapters, where he discusses various aspects of the theory, is perhaps the best part of the book. I don't think the case studies are equally informative because the compared systems are so different in terms of both timescale and purpose. The comparison between American federalism and the European Union makes the most sense, but even there the differences outweigh the similarities. As for the remaining two cases, the centralization of the Catholic church over the past 500 years is simply too big a subject for one chapter, while the centralization at General Motors hinges on the personalities of specific executives, which preempts a general analysis. Although the author's general theory of centralization is interesting, I can't say that his exercise in comparative history really supports it. As the author himself admits (page 161), federal systems that failed would not show up as cases to be studied. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Ken Kollman examines the histories of the US government, the Catholic Church, General Motors, and the European Union as examples of federated systems that centralized power over time. He shows how their institutions became locked-in to intensive power in the executive. The problem with these and other federated systems is that they often cannot decentralize even if it makes sense. The analysis leads Kollman to suggest some surprising changes in institutional design for these four cases and for federated institutions everywhere. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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