Kronenberg, Vernon J. <br/><br/>
Western ministries of defence: rules for organisational change. 

<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Defence, National<br/>Organisational Change