01141pab a2200145 454500 180718b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kronenberg, Vernon J. Western ministries of defence: rules for organisational change. 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 Defence, National Organisational Change Earnshaw, Paul Austration Journal of Public Administration 22781 22781 22781 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Issue no: 50(4) Dec.91, p.552-68 AR22850 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR