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Kronenberg, Vernon J. |
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Western ministries of defence: rules for organisational change. |
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The author describes that much of the comparative polities literature seeks the development of models that can be applied cross-nationally and to other time periods. Cross-national comparisons of five Western countries have been conducted to identify some covarying patterns of changes in top-leveldefence organisations. The fivecountries studied over the 40-year period 1945-85 are Aurstralia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Two types of change events were identified the outcomes of decentralising decisions. Four rules are lested: in the areas of politics, defence budgets, state of conflict, and coalition formation. Rule 1 posits the existence of a correlation between the type of |
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Defence, National |
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Organisational Change |
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Earnshaw, Paul |
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Austration Journal of Public Administration |
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