The Political Origins of Self-Government and Bureaucracy: Otto Hintze's Conceptual Map of Europe
Edward C. Page
The work of Otto Hintze offers a rare combination long-term historical perspective, detailed description institutional arrangements, exploration broad developmental trends as well understanding the factors producing divergent patterns political development. One dominant themes his comparative writing is conception Europe comprising heartland, which developed military-bureaucratic government institutions, and set peripheral states in institutions self-government were more likely to develop. While Hintze's analysis largely only goes far nineteenth century, it number insights into development modern state Europe.
Political Studies